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Alcohol consumption and telomere length: Mendelian randomization clarifies alcohol’s effects

Alcohol’s impact on telomere length, a proposed marker of biological aging, is unclear. We performed the largest observational study to date (in n = 245,354 UK Biobank participants) and compared findings with Mendelian randomization (MR) estimates. Two-sample MR used data from 472,174 participants i...

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Autores principales: Topiwala, A., Taschler, B., Ebmeier, K. P., Smith, S., Zhou, H., Levey, D. F., Codd, V., Samani, N. J., Gelernter, J., Nichols, T. E., Burgess, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9718662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35879401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01690-9