Longitudinal decline of leukocyte telomere length in old age and the association with sex and genetic risk

Aging

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1398-1415

  Berglund, Kari ^a   Reynolds, Chandra A ^b   Ploner, Alexander ^a   Gerritsen, Lotte ^a,c   Hovatta, Iiris ^d,e   Pedersen, Nancy L ^a   Hägg, Sara ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aging; Genetic risk score; Latent growth curve; Longitudinal decline; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; AGED; AGING; ALLELE; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENETIC BACKGROUND; GENETIC RISK; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELOMERE LENGTH; TWIN STUDY; AGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TELOMERE;

EID: 85020064114     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100995     Document Type: Article

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