Leucocyte telomere length and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: new prospective cohort study and literature-based meta-analysis.

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Published in PLoS One on November 12, 2014

Authors

Peter Willeit1, Julia Raschenberger2, Emma E Heydon3, Sotirios Tsimikas4, Margot Haun2, Agnes Mayr5, Siegfried Weger6, Joseph L Witztum4, Adam S Butterworth3, Johann Willeit7, Florian Kronenberg2, Stefan Kiechl7

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2: Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
3: Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
4: Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States of America.
5: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy.
6: Department of Internal Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy.
7: Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.

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