Why are there associations between telomere length and behaviour?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1741, 2018, Pages

  Bateson, Melissa ^a   Nettle, Daniel ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Biological age; Biomarker; Smoking; Telomere attrition; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

AGE; BIOMARKER; CHROMOSOME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; SMOKING;

AVES;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; SMOKING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BIRDS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SMOKING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 85040674359     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0438     Document Type: Article

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