Leukocyte telomere length, T cell composition and DNA methylation age

Aging

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1983-1995

  Chen, Brian H ^a,b,c   Carty, Cara L ^d   Kimura, Masayuki ^e   Kark, Jeremy D ^f   Chen, Wei ^g   Li, Shengxu ^g   Zhang, Tao ^g   Kooperberg, Charles ^h   Levy, Daniel ^b,c   Assimes, Themistocles ⁱ   Absher, Devin ^j   Horvath, Steve ^k,l   Reiner, Alexander P ^h,m   Aviv, Abraham ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

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

^d CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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Author keywords

Aging; DNA methylation; Memory; Na ve; T cells; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGING; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; MORTALITY; PLASMABLAST; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE LENGTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH; AGED; CYTOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELOMERE;

EID: 85030643374     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.101293     Document Type: Article

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