Telomere Length and the Cancer–Atherosclerosis Trade-Off

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Stone, Rivka C ^a   Horvath, Kent ^a   Kark, Jeremy D ^b   Susser, Ezra ^c,d   Tishkoff, Sarah A ^e   Aviv, Abraham ^a  

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

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANCESTRY GROUP; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LEUKOCYTE; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PANCREAS CANCER; PATERNAL AGE; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; AGING; GENETICS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

AGING; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; NEOPLASMS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84982806255     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006144     Document Type: Review

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