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DCAF4, a novel gene associated with leucocyte telomere length

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  • Massimo Mangino Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lene Christiansen Epidemiology Unit, The Danish Aging Research Center and The Danish Twin Registry, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Department of Clinical Genetics, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rivka Stone Center of Human Development and Aging, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Steven C Hunt Cardiovascular Genetics Division, Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kent Horvath Center of Human Development and Aging, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dan T A Eisenberg Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Masayuki Kimura Center of Human Development and Aging, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Inge Petersen Epidemiology Unit, The Danish Aging Research Center and The Danish Twin Registry, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jeremy D Kark Epidemiology Unit, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Utz Herbig Center of Human Development and Aging, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alex P Reiner Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Athanase Benetos Department of Geriatrics, Universite de Lorraine INSERM U961, Nancy, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Veryan Codd Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dale R Nyholt QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ronit Sinnreich Epidemiology Unit, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kaare Christensen Epidemiology Unit, The Danish Aging Research Center and The Danish Twin Registry, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Department of Clinical Genetics, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hisham Nassar Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shih-Jen Hwang Population Sciences Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Daniel Levy Population Sciences Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Veronique Bataille Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK Department of Dermatology, West Herts NHS Trust, Herts, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Annette L Fitzpatrick Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Wei Chen Center for Cardiovascular Health, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gerald S Berenson Center for Cardiovascular Health, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nilesh J Samani Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicholas G Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sarah Tishkoff Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicholas J Schork Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kirsten Ohm Kyvik Epidemiology Unit, The Danish Aging Research Center and The Danish Twin Registry, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Institute of Regional Health Services Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Odense Patient data Explorative Network (OPEN), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Christine Dalgård Institute of Public Health, Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Timothy D Spector Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Abraham Aviv Center of Human Development and Aging, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Abraham Aviv, The Center of Human Development and Aging, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ 07103; avivab@umdnj.edu Massimo Mangino, King's College London, Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, St. Thomas’ Hospital Campus, South Wing, Block D, 3rd Floor, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH, UK; massimo.mangino{at}kcl.ac.uk
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Citation

Mangino M, Christiansen L, Stone R, et al
DCAF4, a novel gene associated with leucocyte telomere length
Journal of Medical Genetics 2015;52:157-162.

Publication history

  • Received July 28, 2014
  • Revised November 13, 2014
  • Accepted December 9, 2014
  • First published January 26, 2015.
Online issue publication 
April 27, 2016

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