Shorter telomere length in Europeans than in Africans due to polygenetic adaptation

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2324-2330

  Hansen, Matthew E B ^a   Hunt, Steven C ^b,c   Stone, Rivka C ^d   Horvath, Kent ^d   Herbig, Utz ^d   Ranciaro, Alessia ^a   Hirbo, Jibril ^a   Beggs, William ^a   Reiner, Alexander P ^e   Wilson, James G ^f   Kimura, Masayuki ^d   Vivo, Immaculata De ^g   Chen, Maxine M ^g   Kark, Jeremy D ^h   Levy, Daniel ⁱ   Nyambo, Thomas ^j   Tishkoff, Sarah A ^a   Aviv, Abraham ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

ⁱ FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^j MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAST AFRICAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE LENGTH; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84998610802     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddw070     Document Type: Article

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