Racial and Socioeconomic Variation in Genetic Markers of Telomere Length: A Cross-Sectional Study of U.S. Older Adults.

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Published in EBioMedicine on August 11, 2016

Authors

Rita Hamad1, Shripad Tuljapurkar2, David H Rehkopf3

Author Affiliations

1: Stanford University, Department of Medicine, 1070 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Electronic address: rhamad@stanford.edu.
2: Stanford University, Biology Department, Herrin Labs 454, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
3: Stanford University, Department of Medicine, 1070 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

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