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Leukocyte telomeres are longer in African Americans than in whites: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study and the Bogalusa Heart Study
Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is ostensibly a bio-indicator of human aging. Here we report that African Americans have longer LTL than whites. We studied cross-sectionally 2453 individuals from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Family Heart Study (age = 30–93 years) and the Bog...
Autores principales: | Hunt, Steven C, Chen, Wei, Gardner, Jeffrey P, Kimura, Masayuki, Srinivasan, Sathanur R, Eckfeldt, John H, Berenson, Gerald S, Aviv, Abraham |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810865/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18462274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2008.00397.x |
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