Is Southern blotting necessary to measure telomere length reproducibly? Authors' Response to: Commentary: The reliability of telomere length measurements

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.