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Leukocyte telomeres are longer in African Americans than in whites: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study and the Bogalusa Heart Study

✍ Scribed by Steven C. Hunt; Wei Chen; Jeffrey P. Gardner; Masayuki Kimura; Sathanur R. Srinivasan; John H. Eckfeldt; Gerald S. Berenson; Abraham Aviv

Book ID: 111199485
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 230 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 1474-9718
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2008.00397.x

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