Telomeres and Health: Recent Insights - May 4, 2015

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Telomeres and Health: Recent Insights - May 4, 2015

CDC Info

• CDC blog post:Tell me more about telomeres
• Emerging methods and technologies: Telomeres in cancer epidemiology: opportunities & challenges.Verma M et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biom and Prevention Feb 2013

Blood telomere length attrition and cancer development in the normative aging study cohort
Hou L et al.Ebiomedicine, April 2015

Telomere length and telomerase in a well-characterized sample of individuals with major depressive disorder compared to controls.
Simon NM et al. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2015 Apr 13. 9-22

The long-term impact of adverse caregiving environments on epigenetic modifications and telomeres.
Blaze J et al. Front Behav Neurosci 2015 79

From cellular senescence to Alzheimer's disease: The role of telomere shortening.
Boccardi V et al. Ageing Res. Rev. 2015 Apr 17. 1-8

Telomere length as a marker of sleep loss and sleep disturbances: a potential link between sleep and cellular senescence.
Tempaku PF et al. Sleep Med. 2015 Feb 14.

Race-ethnicity, poverty, urban stressors, and telomere length in a Detroit community-based sample.
Geronimus AT et al. J Health Soc Behav 2015 Apr 30.

Computel: computation of mean telomere length from whole-genome next-generation sequencing data.
Nersisyan L et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (4) e0125201

Widespread telomere instability in prostatic lesions.
Tu L et al. Mol. Carcinog. 2015 Apr 27.

mRNA deadenylation and telomere disease.
Mason PJ et al. J. Clin. Invest. 2015 May 1. (5) 1796-1798

Are telomeres the key to aging and cancer? University of Utah, Learn Genetics Website

Telomeres and Health: Diet, Exposures and Aging - December 11, 2014

Editorial: Mediterranean diet and telomere length
BMJ2014; 349, December 2014 

Mediterranean diet and telomere length in nurses' health study: population based cohort study
BMJ2014; 349, December, 2014

Mediterranean diet is good for your DNA, by Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, Dec 2 

Soda and cell aging: associations between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and leukocyte telomere length in healthy adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys.
Am J Public Health. 2014 Dec;104(12):2425-31.

The association between shortened leukocyte telomere length and cardio-metabolic outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014 Nov 18

Arsenic exposure, telomere length, and expression of telomere-related genes among Bangladeshi individuals.
Environ Res. 2014 Nov 25;

Telomerase gene (hTERT) and survival: Results from two Swedish cohorts of older adults.

Telomere length and the clinical phenotype of frailty in older adults undergoing cardiac surgery.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2014 Nov;62(11):2205-7

Shorter telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes is associated with childhood autism.
Li Z, et al. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 17;4:7073

The relationship between perceived stress and telomere length: A meta-analysis.
Stress Health. 2014 Nov 13.

Leucocyte telomere length and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: new prospective cohort study and literature-based meta-analysis.
Willeit P, et al. PLoS One. 2014 Nov 12;9(11):e112483

Genetics: Telomere length and the metabolic syndrome-a causal link?
Nilsson PM. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2014 Dec;10(12):706-7

Reproducibility of telomere length assessment: an international collaborative study.
Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Sep 19

Telomeres and Health: Emerging Knowledge - July 24, 2014

Leucocyte telomere length and risk of cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.
BMJ, 2014; 349 July 8, 2014

Explaining telomeres, by Georg Roeggla, BMJ blog , Jul 15

CDC blog post: Tell me more about telomeres

CDC-NCI paper: Emerging methods and technologies: Telomeres in cancer epidemiology: opportunities & challenges. 
Verma M et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biom and Prevention Feb 2013