In a broad range of species—including humans—it has been demonstrated that telomere
length declines throughout life and that it may be involved in cell and organismal …

Individual differences in telomere length have been linked to survival and senescence.
Understanding the heritability of telomere length can provide important insight into individual …

Telomere length is documented to have a hereditary component, and both paternal and X-
linked inheritance have been proposed. We investigated blood cell telomere length in 962 …

Telomere shortening accompanies human aging, and premature aging syndromes are often
associated with short telomeres. These two observations are central to the hypothesis that …

Telomeres prevent the loss of coding genetic material during chromosomal replication.
Previous research suggests that shorter telomere length may be associated with lower …

Telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of eukaryote chromosomes. Telomere
loss limits the number of times cells can divide and is intimately involved in cell loss and …

Previous studies have indicated that average telomere length is partly inherited (Slagboom
et al., 1994; Rufer et al., 1999) and that there is an inherited telomere pattern in each cell …

Individual variation in telomere length is predictive of health and mortality risk across a
range of species. However, the relative influence of environmental and genetic variation on …

Telomere length is linked to age‐associated diseases, with shorter telomeres in blood
associated with an increased probability of mortality from infection or heart disease. Little is …

The average length of telomere repeats (TL) declines with age and is considered to be a
marker of biological ageing. Here, we measured TL in six blood cell types from 1046 …