Short lymphocyte, but not granulocyte, telomere length in a subset of patients with systemic sclerosis

Ann Rheum Dis. 2019 Aug;78(8):1142-1144. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214499. Epub 2019 Jan 24.

Katja Lakota^{1

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3}, Vidya Sagar Hanumanthu⁴, Rishi Agrawal⁵, Mary Carns¹, Mary Armanios⁴, John Varga⁶

¹ Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern Scleroderma Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois‎, USA.
² Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
³ Department of Biodiversity, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Science and Information Technology, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia.
⁴ Department of Oncology and Telomere Center, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁶ Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern Scleroderma Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois‎, USA j-varga@northwestern.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: autoantibodies; pulmonary fibrosis; systemic sclerosis.

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