Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

Veryan Codd, Christopher P. Nelson, Eva Albrecht, Massimo Mangino, Joris Deelen, Jessica L. Buxton, Jouke‐Jan Hottenga, Krista Fischer, Tõnu Esko, Ida Surakka, Linda Broer, Dale R. Nyholt, Irene Mateo Leach, Perttu Salo, Sara Hägg, Mary Matthews, Jutta Palmen, Giuseppe Danilo Norata, Paul F. O’Reilly, Danish Saleheen, Najaf Amin, Anthony J. Balmforth, Marian Beekman, Rudolf A. de Boer, Stefan Böhringer, Peter S. Braund, Paul R. Burton, Anton J Mde Craen, Matthew Denniff, Yanbin Dong, Konstantinos Douroudis, Dubinina Ev, Johan G. Eriksson, K. Garlaschelli, Dehuang Guo, Anna‐Liisa Hartikainen, Anjali K. Henders, Jeanine J. Houwing‐Duistermaat, Laura Kananen, Lennart C. Karssen, Johannes Kettunen, Norman Klopp, Vasiliki Lagou, Jin‐Moo Lee, Pamela A. F. Madden, Reedik Mägi, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Satu Männistö, Mark I. McCarthy, Sarah E. Medland, Evelin Mihailov, Grant W. Montgomery, Ben A. Oostra, Aarno Palotie, Annette Peters, Helen Perlstein Pollard, Anneli Pouta, Inga Prokopenko, Samuli Ripatti, Veikko Salomaa, H. Eka D. Suchiman, Ana M. Valdes, Niek Verweij, Ana Viñuela, Xiaoling Wang, H‐Erich Wichmann, Elisabeth Widén, Gonneke Willemsen, Margaret J. Wright, Kai Xia, Xiangjun Xiao, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, Alberico L. Catapano, Martin D. Tobin, Alistair S. Hall, Alexandra I. F. Blakemore, Wiek H. van Gilst, Haidong Zhu, Jeanette Erdmann, Muredach P. Reilly, Sekar Kathiresan, Heribert Schunkert, Philippa J. Talmud, Nancy L. Pedersen, Markus Perola, Willem H. Ouwehand, Jaakko Kaprio, Nicholas G. Martin, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Iiris Hovatta, Christian Gieger, Andres Metspalu, Dorret I. Boomsma, Paul M Ridker, P. Eline Slagboom, John R. Thompson, Tim D. Spector, Pim van der Harst, Nilesh J. Samani (2013). Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease. , 45(4), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2528.