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SUBMITTER: Nettle D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8245883 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nettle Daniel D Gadalla Shahinaz M SM Lai Tsung-Po TP Susser Ezra E Bateson Melissa M Aviv Abraham A
American journal of epidemiology 20210701 7
Researchers increasingly wish to test hypotheses concerning the impact of environmental or disease exposures on telomere length (TL), and they use longitudinal study designs to do so. In population studies, TL is usually measured with a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-based method. This method has been validated by calculating its correlation with a gold standard method such as Southern blotting (SB) in cross-sectional data sets. However, in a cross-section, the range of true varia ...[more]