Educational attainment and late life telomere length in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study.

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Published in Brain Behav Immun on September 05, 2012

Authors

Nancy Adler1, Matthew S Pantell, Aoife O'Donovan, Elizabeth Blackburn, Richard Cawthon, Annemarie Koster, Patricia Opresko, Anne Newman, Tamara B Harris, Elissa Epel

Author Affiliations

1: University of California, San Francisco, USA. nancy.adler@ucsf.edu

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