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Telomeres cap and protect DNA but shorten with each somatic cell division. Aging and environmental and lifestyle factors contribute to the speed of telomere attrition. Current evidence suggests a link… Click to show full abstract
Telomeres cap and protect DNA but shorten with each somatic cell division. Aging and environmental and lifestyle factors contribute to the speed of telomere attrition. Current evidence suggests a link between relative telomere length (RTL) and depression but the directionality of the relationship remains unclear. We prospectively examined associations between RTL and subsequent depressive symptom trajectories.
Keywords:
depression;
telomere length;
length midlife;
midlife subsequent;
relation telomere;
subsequent year
Journal Title: Depression and Anxiety
Year Published: 2019
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Journal Title: Depression and Anxiety
Year Published: 2019
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