Telomeres and the natural lifespan limit in humans

Aging

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1130-1142

  Steenstrup, Troels ^a   Kark, Jeremy D ^b   Verhulst, Simon ^c   Thinggaard, Mikael ^a,d   Hjelmborg, Jacob V B ^a   Dalgård, Christine ^a   Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm ^a   Christiansen, Lene ^a   Mangino, Massimo ^e,f   Spector, Timothy D ^e   Petersen, Inge ^a   Kimura, Masayuki ^g   Benetos, Athanase ^h,i,j   Labat, Carlos ^i,j   Sinnreich, Ronit ^b   Hwang, Shih Jen ^k,l   Levy, Daniel ^k,l   Hunt, Steven C ^m   Fitzpatrick, Annette L ⁿ   Chen, Wei ^o   Berenson, Gerald S ^o   Barbieri, Michelangela ^p   Paolisso, Giuseppe ^p   Gadalla, Shahinaz M ^q   Savage, Sharon A ^q   Christensen, Kaare ^a,d   Yashin, Anatoliy I ^r   Arbeev, Konstantin G ^r   Aviv, Abraham ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

ⁱ INSERM UMR S 1116 University of Lorraine   (France)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^k NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^m WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^o Tulane Center for Cardiovascular Health   (United States)

^p SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^q NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^r DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Leukocytes; Life expectancy; Longevity; Maximal lifespan; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 85018989551     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.101216     Document Type: Article

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