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Telomere Length and Mortality: A Study of Leukocytes in Elderly Danish Twins

12 Feb 2008

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Leukocyte telomere length, representing the mean length of all telomeres in leukocytes, is ostensibly a bioindicator of human aging. The authors hypothesized that shorter telomeres might forecast imminent mortality in elderly people better than leukocyte telomere length. They performed mortality analysis in 548 same-sex Danish twins (274 pairs) aged 73-94 years, of whom 204 pairs experienced the death of one or...

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PMID: 18270372
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwm380

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