Commentary: The reliability of telomere length measurements

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1683-1686

  Verhulst, Simon ^a   Susser, Ezra ^b   Factor Litvak, Pam R ^b   Simons, Mirre J P ^c   Benetos, Athanase ^d   Steenstrup, Troels ^e   Kark, Jeremy D ^f   Aviv, Abraham ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e Danske Bank   (Denmark)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CHROMOSOME; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL CULTURE; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LABORATORY TEST; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SINGLE TELOMERE LENGTH ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84952923464     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv166     Document Type: Article

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