Telomeres and the natural lifespan limit in humans.

Author: Steenstrup T¹, Kark JD², Verhulst S³, Thinggaard M^4,5, Hjelmborg JV^1,6, Dalgård C⁷, Kyvik KO⁸, Christiansen L^1,5,6, Mangino M^9,10, Spector TD⁹, Petersen I¹, Kimura M¹¹, Benetos A^12,13,14, Labat C^13,14, Sinnreich R², Hwang SJ¹⁵, Levy D¹⁵, Hunt SC¹⁶, Fitzpatrick AL¹⁷, Chen W¹⁸, Berenson GS¹⁸, Barbieri M¹⁹, Paolisso G¹⁹, Gadalla SM²⁰, Savage SA²⁰, Christensen K^4,5,6, Yashin AI²¹, Arbeev KG²¹, Aviv A¹¹
Affiliation:
¹Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5000, Denmark.
²Epidemiology Unit, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
³Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁴Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense 5220, Denmark.
⁵Danish Aging Research Center, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5000, Denmark.
⁶The Danish Twin Registry, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5220, Denmark.
⁷Department of Public Health, Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense C, Denmark.
⁸Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark and Odense Patient Data Explorative Network (OPEN), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
⁹Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK.
¹⁰NIHI Biomedical Research Center at Guy's and St Thomas Foundation Trust, London SE1 9RT, UK.
¹¹Center of Human Development and Aging, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA.
¹²Department of Geriatrics, University Hospital of Nancy, F54500, France.
¹³INSERM, U1116, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, F54500, France.
¹⁴Université de Lorraine, Nancy, F54000, France.
¹⁵Population Sciences Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD and the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA.
¹⁶Cardiovascular Genetics Division, Department of Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA.
¹⁷Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
¹⁸Center for Cardiovascular Health, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 07118, USA.
¹⁹Department of Medical, Surgery, Neurologic, Metabolic and Aging Science, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvtelli" 80138 Naples, Italy.
²⁰Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20890, USA.
²¹Biodemography of Aging Research Unit, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Conference/Journal: Aging (Albany NY).
Date published: 2017 Apr 6
Other: Special Notes: doi: 10.18632/aging.101216. [Epub ahead of print] , Word Count: 118