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Coming up short: Comparing venous blood, dried blood spots & saliva samples for measuring telomere length in health equity research

BACKGROUND: Telomere length (TL) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from fresh venous blood is increasingly used to estimate molecular impacts of accumulated social adversity on population health. Sometimes, TL extracted from saliva or dried blood spots (DBS) are substituted as less invasi...

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Autores principales: Geronimus, Arline T., Bound, John, Mitchell, Colter, Martinez-Cardoso, Aresha, Evans, Linnea, Hughes, Landon, Schneper, Lisa, Notterman, Daniel A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34407110
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255237