Published in PLoS Genet on February 13, 2009
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Shortened telomere length is associated with increased risk of cancer: a meta-analysis. PLoS One (2011) 2.61
Exposure to violence during childhood is associated with telomere erosion from 5 to 10 years of age: a longitudinal study. Mol Psychiatry (2012) 2.37
Telomere length trajectory and its determinants in persons with coronary artery disease: longitudinal findings from the heart and soul study. PLoS One (2010) 2.10
Telomere length in epidemiology: a biomarker of aging, age-related disease, both, or neither? Epidemiol Rev (2013) 2.05
Childhood adversities are associated with shorter telomere length at adult age both in individuals with an anxiety disorder and controls. PLoS One (2010) 2.03
Major depressive disorder and accelerated cellular aging: results from a large psychiatric cohort study. Mol Psychiatry (2013) 1.96
Omega-3 fatty acids, oxidative stress, and leukocyte telomere length: A randomized controlled trial. Brain Behav Immun (2012) 1.76
Telomere shortening and survival in free-living corvids. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 1.76
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Association of marine omega-3 fatty acid levels with telomeric aging in patients with coronary heart disease. JAMA (2010) 1.71
Gender and telomere length: systematic review and meta-analysis. Exp Gerontol (2013) 1.62
Telomere length and genetic analyses in population-based studies of endometrial cancer risk. Cancer (2010) 1.61
The association of telomere length and genetic variation in telomere biology genes. Hum Mutat (2010) 1.53
Depression and leukocyte telomere length in patients with coronary heart disease: data from the Heart and Soul Study. Psychosom Med (2011) 1.49
Genetics of leukocyte telomere length and its role in atherosclerosis. Mutat Res (2011) 1.44
Blood cell telomere length is a dynamic feature. PLoS One (2011) 1.41
The telomere lengthening conundrum--artifact or biology? Nucleic Acids Res (2013) 1.38
Large-scale parent-child comparison confirms a strong paternal influence on telomere length. Eur J Hum Genet (2009) 1.33
Do leukocyte telomere length dynamics depend on baseline telomere length? An analysis that corrects for 'regression to the mean'. Eur J Epidemiol (2013) 1.28
Childhood obesity is associated with shorter leukocyte telomere length. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2011) 1.27
Telomere length in atherosclerosis and diabetes. Atherosclerosis (2009) 1.24
Early life stress and telomere length: investigating the connection and possible mechanisms: a critical survey of the evidence base, research methodology and basic biology. Bioessays (2012) 1.23
Tracking and fixed ranking of leukocyte telomere length across the adult life course. Aging Cell (2013) 1.17
Leucocyte telomere length and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: new prospective cohort study and literature-based meta-analysis. PLoS One (2014) 1.17
Genome-wide association study of relative telomere length. PLoS One (2011) 1.16
Telomere shortening unrelated to smoking, body weight, physical activity, and alcohol intake: 4,576 general population individuals with repeat measurements 10 years apart. PLoS Genet (2014) 1.16
Measuring telomere length and telomere dynamics in evolutionary biology and ecology. Methods Ecol Evol (2014) 1.10
Longitudinal association of telomere length and obesity indices in an intervention study with a Mediterranean diet: the PREDIMED-NAVARRA trial. Int J Obes (Lond) (2013) 1.02
Employment and work schedule are related to telomere length in women. Occup Environ Med (2011) 1.01
Hostility and cellular aging in men from the Whitehall II cohort. Biol Psychiatry (2011) 0.99
Race-related health disparities and biological aging: does rate of telomere shortening differ across blacks and whites? Biol Psychol (2014) 0.98
Leukocyte telomere length in the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study. PLoS One (2012) 0.95
Age-associated telomere attrition of lymphocytes in vivo is co-ordinated with changes in telomerase activity, composition of lymphocyte subsets and health conditions. Clin Sci (Lond) (2015) 0.95
Telomeres and immune competency. Curr Opin Immunol (2012) 0.94
The association of telomere length with colorectal cancer differs by the age of cancer onset. Clin Transl Gastroenterol (2014) 0.93
Longer leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula: a population-based study. Exp Gerontol (2013) 0.93
Leukocyte telomere dynamics in the elderly. Eur J Epidemiol (2013) 0.92
Chronic pain, perceived stress, and cellular aging: an exploratory study. Mol Pain (2012) 0.92
Telomere length attrition, a marker of biological senescence, is inversely correlated with triglycerides and cholesterol in South Asian males with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Exp Diabetes Res (2012) 0.91
Telomere length and recurrence risk after curative resection in patients with early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer: a prospective cohort study. J Thorac Oncol (2015) 0.83
Long leukocyte telomere length at diagnosis is a risk factor for dementia progression in idiopathic parkinsonism. PLoS One (2014) 0.83
Change in peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length and mortality in breast cancer survivors. J Natl Cancer Inst (2014) 0.83
Telomere length as a biomarker for adiposity changes after a multidisciplinary intervention in overweight/obese adolescents: the EVASYON study. PLoS One (2014) 0.83
Reliability and short-term intra-individual variability of telomere length measurement using monochrome multiplexing quantitative PCR. PLoS One (2011) 0.83
The telomere lengthening conundrum - it could be biology. Aging Cell (2016) 0.82
Telomere length increase after weight loss induced by bariatric surgery: results from a 10 year prospective study. Int J Obes (Lond) (2015) 0.82
Association between informal caregiving and cellular aging in the survey of the health of wisconsin: the role of caregiving characteristics, stress, and strain. Am J Epidemiol (2014) 0.82
Multiple measures of adiposity are associated with mean leukocyte telomere length in the northern Finland birth cohort 1966. PLoS One (2014) 0.81
Seasonal variation of peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica: A population-based observational study. Am J Hum Biol (2014) 0.81
Systematic and Cell Type-Specific Telomere Length Changes in Subsets of Lymphocytes. J Immunol Res (2016) 0.80
Physical Activity, Physical Fitness, and Leukocyte Telomere Length: The Cardiovascular Health Study. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2015) 0.79
Longitudinal decline of leukocyte telomere length in old age and the association with sex and genetic risk. Aging (Albany NY) (2016) 0.78
Prospective study of telomere length and LINE-1 methylation in peripheral blood cells: the role of B vitamins supplementation. Eur J Nutr (2015) 0.77
Telomere length change plateaus at 4 years of age in Latino children: associations with baseline length and maternal change. Mol Genet Genomics (2016) 0.76
Stem cell aging in adult progeria. Cell Regen (Lond) (2015) 0.75
Psychiatric Disorders, Morbidity, and Mortality: Tracing Mechanistic Pathways to Accelerated Aging. Psychosom Med (2016) 0.75
Psychological Profiles in the Prediction of Leukocyte Telomere Length in Healthy Individuals. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Specific genomic aberrations predict survival, but low mutation rate in cancer hot spots, in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol (2015) 0.75
Differences in placental telomere length suggest a link between racial disparities in birth outcomes and cellular aging. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2016) 0.75
Cigarette smoking and telomere length: A systematic review of 84 studies and meta-analysis. Environ Res (2017) 0.75
Preterm infants have significantly longer telomeres than their term born counterparts. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
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Telomere dysfunction: a potential cancer predisposition factor. J Natl Cancer Inst (2003) 5.09
A protein-counting mechanism for telomere length regulation in yeast. Science (1997) 4.79
Telomere length homeostasis is achieved via a switch between telomerase- extendible and -nonextendible states. Cell (2004) 4.79
The rate of telomere sequence loss in human leukocytes varies with age. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1998) 4.17
The epigenetic regulation of mammalian telomeres. Nat Rev Genet (2007) 3.82
The association between physical activity in leisure time and leukocyte telomere length. Arch Intern Med (2008) 3.68
Mapping of a major locus that determines telomere length in humans. Am J Hum Genet (2004) 3.33
Telomere length inversely correlates with pulse pressure and is highly familial. Hypertension (2000) 3.32
Rise in insulin resistance is associated with escalated telomere attrition. Circulation (2005) 3.27
Multilevel modelling of medical data. Stat Med (2002) 3.05
Leukocyte telomere dynamics: longitudinal findings among young adults in the Bogalusa Heart Study. Am J Epidemiol (2008) 2.86
Telomere length in white blood cells is not associated with morbidity or mortality in the oldest old: a population-based study. Aging Cell (2005) 2.83
A prospective study of telomere length and the risk of skin cancer. J Invest Dermatol (2008) 2.75
Telomere length and cardiovascular risk factors in a middle-aged population free of overt cardiovascular disease. Aging Cell (2007) 2.62
Restoration of telomerase activity rescues chromosomal instability and premature aging in Terc-/- mice with short telomeres. EMBO Rep (2001) 2.59
Telomeric length and telomerase activity vary with age in peripheral blood cells obtained from normal individuals. Hum Genet (1998) 2.27
Targeting assay to study the cis functions of human telomeric proteins: evidence for inhibition of telomerase by TRF1 and for activation of telomere degradation by TRF2. Mol Cell Biol (2002) 2.25
Breast cancer survival is associated with telomere length in peripheral blood cells. Cancer Res (2008) 2.24
Control of telomere growth by interactions of RAP1 with the most distal telomeric repeats. Nature (1996) 2.24
Subsenescent telomere lengths in fibroblasts immortalized by limiting amounts of telomerase. J Biol Chem (2000) 2.14
Telomere length and heredity: Indications of paternal inheritance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 2.10
Telomere length is associated with obesity parameters but with a gender difference. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2008) 1.87
Telomere length regulation in mice is linked to a novel chromosome locus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1998) 1.78
Telomere dysfunction in peripheral lymphocytes as a potential predisposition factor for renal cancer. J Urol (2007) 1.65
A continuous correlation between oxidative stress and telomere shortening in fibroblasts. Exp Gerontol (2007) 1.65
Prospective study of IGF-I, IGF-binding proteins, and breast cancer risk, in northern and southern Sweden. Cancer Causes Control (2002) 1.44
The pattern of chromosome-specific variations in telomere length in humans is determined by inherited, telomere-near factors and is maintained throughout life. Mech Ageing Dev (2003) 1.33
Is telomere length in peripheral blood lymphocytes correlated with cancer susceptibility or radiosensitivity? Br J Cancer (2007) 1.32
Allele-specific relative telomere lengths are inherited. Hum Genet (2006) 1.18
Shared environmental factors associated with telomere length maintenance in elderly male twins. Aging Cell (2007) 1.14
hTERT (-1327)T/C polymorphism is not associated with age-related telomere attrition in peripheral blood. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2007) 1.12
The pattern of chromosome-specific variations in telomere length in humans shows signs of heritability and is maintained through life. Ann N Y Acad Sci (2006) 0.95
VEGF is a modifier of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice and humans and protects motoneurons against ischemic death. Nat Genet (2003) 4.19
Mutations in two genes encoding different subunits of a receptor signaling complex result in an identical disease phenotype. Am J Hum Genet (2002) 4.06
Increased incidence of invasive breast cancer after the introduction of service screening with mammography in Sweden. Int J Cancer (2005) 3.51
Evaluation of diagnostic procedures in Swedish patients with schizophrenia and related psychoses. Nord J Psychiatry (2005) 3.22
Ultraviolet radiation exposure and risk of malignant lymphomas. J Natl Cancer Inst (2005) 3.19
Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part III: Bipolar disorder. Am J Hum Genet (2003) 3.02
Consumption of vegetables and fruits and risk of breast cancer. JAMA (2005) 3.02
Somatically mutated Ig V(H)3-21 genes characterize a new subset of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood (2002) 3.00
Prospective study of hyperglycemia and cancer risk. Diabetes Care (2007) 2.89
Shortened telomere length is associated with increased risk of cancer: a meta-analysis. PLoS One (2011) 2.61
The HCL-32: towards a self-assessment tool for hypomanic symptoms in outpatients. J Affect Disord (2005) 2.58
Breast cancer survival is associated with telomere length in peripheral blood cells. Cancer Res (2008) 2.24
Telomere length and heredity: Indications of paternal inheritance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 2.10
Polymorphism in the P2X7 receptor gene and survival in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Lancet (2002) 1.97
Telomere length is associated with obesity parameters but with a gender difference. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2008) 1.87
Genetic variation at the CYP19A1 locus predicts circulating estrogen levels but not breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women. Cancer Res (2007) 1.82
Circadian clock-related polymorphisms in seasonal affective disorder and their relevance to diurnal preference. Neuropsychopharmacology (2002) 1.82
Three circadian clock genes Per2, Arntl, and Npas2 contribute to winter depression. Ann Med (2007) 1.77
Subsets with restricted immunoglobulin gene rearrangement features indicate a role for antigen selection in the development of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood (2004) 1.77
Ancestry-shift refinement mapping of the C6orf97-ESR1 breast cancer susceptibility locus. PLoS Genet (2010) 1.74
Differential expression of p63 isoforms in normal tissues and neoplastic cells. J Pathol (2002) 1.67
Vascular endothelial growth factor polymorphisms in relation to breast cancer development and prognosis. Clin Cancer Res (2005) 1.66
Is smoking an independent risk factor for invasive cervical cancer? A nested case-control study within Nordic biobanks. Am J Epidemiol (2008) 1.62
Evaluation of antibodies to human papillomavirus as prognostic markers in cervical cancer patients. Gynecol Oncol (2002) 1.56
Circulating levels of sex steroid hormones and risk of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women. Int J Cancer (2004) 1.52
Nordic biological specimen banks as basis for studies of cancer causes and control--more than 2 million sample donors, 25 million person years and 100,000 prospective cancers. Acta Oncol (2007) 1.51
Swedish clinical guidelines--prevention and management of metabolic risk in patients with severe psychiatric disorders. Nord J Psychiatry (2010) 1.46
Polymorphisms in predicted microRNA-binding sites in integrin genes and breast cancer: ITGB4 as prognostic marker. Carcinogenesis (2008) 1.45
Meat, eggs, dairy products, and risk of breast cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort. Am J Clin Nutr (2009) 1.45
Prospective study of IGF-I, IGF-binding proteins, and breast cancer risk, in northern and southern Sweden. Cancer Causes Control (2002) 1.44
ERK phosphorylation is linked to VEGFR2 expression and Ets-2 phosphorylation in breast cancer and is associated with tamoxifen treatment resistance and small tumours with good prognosis. Oncogene (2005) 1.42
Blood cell telomere length is a dynamic feature. PLoS One (2011) 1.41
Reduced functional brain activity response in cognitively intact apolipoprotein E epsilon4 carriers. Brain (2006) 1.39
Adiposity, hormone replacement therapy use and breast cancer risk by age and hormone receptor status: a large prospective cohort study. Breast Cancer Res (2012) 1.37
Plasma leptin and breast cancer risk: a prospective study in northern Sweden. Breast Cancer Res Treat (2004) 1.35
The cyclin D1 high and cyclin E high subgroups of breast cancer: separate pathways in tumorogenesis based on pattern of genetic aberrations and inactivation of the pRb node. Oncogene (2002) 1.33
Consumption of filtered and boiled coffee and the risk of incident cancer: a prospective cohort study. Cancer Causes Control (2010) 1.33
Large-scale parent-child comparison confirms a strong paternal influence on telomere length. Eur J Hum Genet (2009) 1.33
Prediagnostic levels of C-peptide, IGF-I, IGFBP -1, -2 and -3 and risk of endometrial cancer. Int J Cancer (2004) 1.33
Body mass index and cancer: results from the Northern Sweden Health and Disease Cohort. Int J Cancer (2006) 1.31
Reduced hippocampal volume in non-demented carriers of the apolipoprotein E epsilon4: relation to chronological age and recognition memory. Neurosci Lett (2006) 1.31
Short telomeres in depression and the general population are associated with a hypocortisolemic state. Biol Psychiatry (2011) 1.31
COMT gene polymorphism is associated with declarative memory in adulthood and old age. Behav Genet (2004) 1.31
Evaluation of immunophenotype in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and its impact on prognosis. Mod Pathol (2005) 1.31
High prevalence of white matter hyperintensities in normal aging: relation to blood pressure and cognition. Cortex (2003) 1.29
Family history of hematopoietic malignancy and risk of lymphoma. J Natl Cancer Inst (2005) 1.29
Dietary fat and breast cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Am J Clin Nutr (2008) 1.27
Catechol O-methyltransferase Val158Met polymorphism is associated with cognitive performance in nondemented adults. J Cogn Neurosci (2005) 1.26
The influence of APOE status on episodic and semantic memory: data from a population-based study. Neuropsychology (2006) 1.25
Postmenopausal breast cancer risk in relation to sex steroid hormones, prolactin and SHBG (Sweden). Cancer Causes Control (2003) 1.24
Characterization of the expression of the ALK receptor tyrosine kinase in mice. Gene Expr Patterns (2006) 1.24
Circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of ovarian cancer. Int J Cancer (2002) 1.24
CRY2 is associated with depression. PLoS One (2010) 1.23
Telomere length as a prognostic parameter in chronic lymphocytic leukemia with special reference to VH gene mutation status. Blood (2005) 1.22
hTERT cancer risk genotypes are associated with telomere length. Genet Epidemiol (2012) 1.20
Telomere length as a biological marker in malignancy. Biochim Biophys Acta (2009) 1.19
Telomere length in peripheral blood predicts survival in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Res (2009) 1.18
Circulating levels of sex steroid hormones and risk of ovarian cancer. Int J Cancer (2003) 1.17
Prediction of breast cancer risk by genetic risk factors, overall and by hormone receptor status. J Med Genet (2012) 1.13
Human QKI, a new candidate gene for schizophrenia involved in myelination. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet (2006) 1.12
Glucocorticoid receptor gene-based SNP analysis in patients with recurrent major depression. Neuropsychopharmacology (2006) 1.12
hTERT (-1327)T/C polymorphism is not associated with age-related telomere attrition in peripheral blood. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2007) 1.12
Polymorphisms in the KDR and POSTN genes: association with breast cancer susceptibility and prognosis. Breast Cancer Res Treat (2006) 1.10
Promoter polymorphisms in matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors: few associations with breast cancer susceptibility and progression. Breast Cancer Res Treat (2006) 1.10
Genomewide scan for affective disorder susceptibility Loci in families of a northern Swedish isolated population. Am J Hum Genet (2004) 1.08
Cholesterol and triglycerides moderate the effect of apolipoprotein E on memory functioning in older adults. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci (2007) 1.07
Gene copy number variation in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res (2007) 1.06
The Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32): its factorial structure and association to indices of impairment in German and Swedish nonclinical samples. Compr Psychiatry (2006) 1.05
Sequencing of DISC1 pathway genes reveals increased burden of rare missense variants in schizophrenia patients from a northern Swedish population. PLoS One (2011) 1.05
A polymorphism in the serotonin receptor 3A (HTR3A) gene and its association with harm avoidance in women. Arch Gen Psychiatry (2003) 1.04
High prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among a Swedish cohort of patients with schizophrenia. Int Clin Psychopharmacol (2006) 1.04
Service screening with mammography in Northern Sweden: effects on breast cancer mortality - an update. J Med Screen (2007) 1.03
Variation in DNA repair genes ERCC2, XRCC1, and XRCC3 and risk of follicular lymphoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2006) 1.03
A candidate CpG SNP approach identifies a breast cancer associated ESR1-SNP. Int J Cancer (2011) 1.03
Polymorphisms in the transforming growth factor beta 1 pathway in relation to colorectal cancer progression. Genes Chromosomes Cancer (2010) 1.02
Association of brain-specific tryptophan hydroxylase, TPH2, with unipolar and bipolar disorder in a Northern Swedish, isolated population. Arch Gen Psychiatry (2006) 1.02
Interleukin promoter polymorphisms and prognosis in colorectal cancer. Carcinogenesis (2008) 1.01
Polymorphisms in telomere-associated genes, breast cancer susceptibility and prognosis. Eur J Cancer (2009) 1.00
Mutated VH genes and preferential VH3-21 use define new subsets of mantle cell lymphoma. Blood (2003) 1.00
C-reactive protein and ovarian cancer: a prospective study nested in three cohorts (Sweden, USA, Italy). Cancer Causes Control (2009) 0.99
Hypomania: a transcultural perspective. World Psychiatry (2010) 0.99
Chromosomal imbalances in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma detected by comparative genomic hybridization. Mod Pathol (2002) 0.99
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