The opportunities and obstacles of studying telomere length as a biological aging marker in psychiatry

Aging can be described as the life-long accumulation of damage to the tissues, cells, and molecules of the body. One of the most widely used markers to study biological aging is telomere length. Telomeres are non-coding DNA structures located at the ends of chromosomes that become progressively shor...

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Main Authors: J. Verhoeven, B. Penninx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021-04-01
Series:European Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933821001954/type/journal_article