Discrimination, racial bias, and telomere length in African-American men.

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Published in Am J Prev Med on February 01, 2014

Authors

David H Chae1, Amani M Nuru-Jeter2, Nancy E Adler3, Gene H Brody4, Jue Lin5, Elizabeth H Blackburn5, Elissa S Epel3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland. Electronic address: hdchae@umd.edu.
2: Departments of Community Health and Human Development and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley.
3: Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
4: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
5: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

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