Do US Black Women Experience Stress-Related Accelerated Biological Aging?: A Novel Theory and First Population-Based Test of Black-White Differences in Telomere Length.

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Published in Hum Nat on March 10, 2010

Authors

Arline T Geronimus1, Margaret T Hicken, Jay A Pearson, Sarah J Seashols, Kelly L Brown, Tracey Dawson Cruz

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1: School of Public Health and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA.

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