Short telomeres confer risk of degenerative diseases. Chronic psychological stress can lead
to disease through many pathways, and research from in vitro studies to human longitudinal …

Emerging evidence has shown that leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with
various health‐related outcomes, while the causality of these associations remains unclear …

Background: Epigenetic clocks have been associated with cancer risk in several
observational studies. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether they play a causal role in cancer …

Telomere dynamics play a crucial role in the maintenance of chromosome integrity; changes
in telomere length may thus contribute to the development of various diseases including …

Background Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is related to prostate cancer (PCa). However,
the causal relationship between them remains unknown. This study was aimed at identifying …

Previous research in high-income countries suggests that children from families with lower
socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have shorter telomere length–a biomarker of stress and …

Background Childhood-onset asthma (COA) has become a major and growing problem
worldwide and imposes a heavy socioeconomic burden on individuals and families; …

Background The term eGene has been applied to define a gene whose expression level is
affected by at least one independent expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL). It is both …

Maintenance of telomere length has long been established to play a role in the biology of
cancer and several studies suggest that it may be especially important in myeloid …

The age of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) donors and their hematopoietic
cell telomere length (TL) might affect recipients' outcomes. Our goals were to examine the …