Short telomere length is associated with impaired cognitive performance in European ancestry cohorts

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Hagg S ^a   Zhan, Y ^a   Karlsson, R ^a   Gerritsen, L ^a   Ploner, A ^a   Van Der Lee, S J ^b   Broer, L ^b   Deelen, J ^c,d   Marioni, R E ^e,f   Wong, A ^g   Lundquist, A ^h   Zhu, G ⁱ   Hansell, N K ^f,i   Sillanpaa E ^j   Fedko, I O ^k   Amin, N A ^b   Beekman, M ^c   De Craen, A J M ^c   Degerman, S ^h   Harris, S E ^e   Kan, K J ^k   Martin Ruiz, C M ^l   Montgomery, G W ⁱ   Adolfsson, A N ^h   Reynolds, C A ^m   Samani, N J ^n,o   Suchiman, H E D ^c   Viljanen, A ^j   Von Zglinicki, T ^p   Wright, M J ^f   Hottenga, J J ^k   Boomsma, D I ^k   Rantanen, T ^j   Kaprio, J A ^q,r   Nyholt, D R ^i,s   Martin, N G ⁱ   Nyberg, L ^h,t   Adolfsson, R ^h   Kuh, D ^g   Starr, J M ^e   Deary, I J ^e   Slagboom, P E ^c   Van Duijn, C M ^b   Codd, V ^n,o   Pedersen, N L ^a   more..

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^k VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^l NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^o GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^p NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^r NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^s QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^t UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ACYP2 GENE; ADULT; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIGIT SYMBOL SUBSTITUTION TEST; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NAF1 GENE; NETHERLANDS; OBFC1 GENE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLEIOTROPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RTEL1 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STROOP TEST; TELOMERE LENGTH; TERC GENE; TERT GENE; ZNF208 GENE; AGED; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC CARRIER SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TELOMERE;

EID: 85023162251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2017.73     Document Type: Article

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