Reproducibility of telomere length assessment: Authors' Response to Damjan Krstajic and Ljubomir Buturovic
Int J Epidemiol
.
2015 Oct;44(5):1739-41.
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv170.
Epub 2015 Sep 24.
Authors
Carmen M Martin-Ruiz
1
,
Duncan Baird
2
,
Laureline Roger
2
,
Petra Boukamp
3
,
Damir Krunic
3
,
Richard Cawthon
4
,
Martin M Dokter
5
,
Pim Van Der Harst
5
,
Sofie Bekaert
6
,
Tim De Meyer
7
,
Goran Roos
8
,
Ulrika Svenson
8
,
Veryan Codd
9
,
Nilesh J Samani
9
,
Liane Mcglynn
10
,
Paul G Shiels
10
,
Karen A Pooley
11
,
Alison M Dunning
12
,
Rachel Cooper
13
,
Andrew Wong
13
,
Andrew Kingston
1
,
Thomas Von Zglinicki
14
Affiliations
1
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
2
Institute of Cancer and Genetics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
3
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
4
Department. of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
5
Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
6
Bimetra, Clinical Research Center, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
7
Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
8
Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
9
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
10
Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
11
Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
12
Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
13
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London, UK and.
14
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, t.vonzglinicki@newcastle.ac.uk.
PMID:
26403811
DOI:
10.1093/ije/dyv170
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
Comment
MeSH terms
Humans
Reproducibility of Results*
Telomere*
Grants and funding
16565/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom
G0601333/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom
MC_UU_12019/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom