Race,ethnicity, psychosocial factors, and telomere length in a multicenter setting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Lynch, Shannon M ^a,b   Peek, M K ^c   Mitra, Nandita ^a   Ravichandran, Krithika ^d   Branas, Charles ^a   Spangler, Elaine ^a   Zhou, Wenting ^a   Paskett, Electra D ^e   Gehlert, Sarah ^f   Degraffinreid, Cecilia ^e   Rebbeck, Timothy R ^a,g   Riethman, Harold ^c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^d WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA EXTRACTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; RACE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRESS; ANCESTRY GROUP; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNIC GROUP; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84954423997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146723     Document Type: Article

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