Leukocyte telomere length is associated with noninvasively measured age-related disease: The Cardiovascular Health Study.

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Published in J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci on September 20, 2011

Authors

Jason L Sanders1, Annette L Fitzpatrick, Robert M Boudreau, Alice M Arnold, Abraham Aviv, Masayuki Kimura, Linda F Fried, Tamara B Harris, Anne B Newman

Author Affiliations

1: School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. sanders.jason@medstudent.pitt.edu

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