Association Analysis of Four Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms with Leukocyte Telomere Length in Two Chinese Populations

Lan Cao; Yun Liu; Qin Shen; Xinzhi Zhao; Ting Wang; Lin He

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2013.08.001

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Association Analysis of Four Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms with Leukocyte Telomere Length in Two Chinese Populations

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2013.08.001

Lan Cao^{a, #},
Yun Liu^{a, #},
Qin Shen^b,
Xinzhi Zhao^a,
Ting Wang^b,
Lin He^{a, c}

a
Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
b
Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
c
Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: helin@bio-x.cn (Lin He)
Received Date: 2013-03-26
Accepted Date: 2013-08-02
Rev Recd Date: 2013-07-30

Available Online: 2013-08-13

Publish Date: 2013-09-20

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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