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Genetic, parental and lifestyle factors influence telomere length
2021-12-15
Abstract excerpt
The average length of telomere repeats (TL) declines with age and is considered to be a marker of biological ageing. Here, we measured TL in six blood cell types from 1,046 individuals using the clinically validated Flow-FISH method. We identified remarkable cell-type-specific variations in TL. Host genetics, environmental, parental and intrinsic factors such as sex, parental age, and smoking are associated to var...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d998d8ae-8495-58c2-9093-b5244edf4027
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.12.14.472541