Childhood Adversities Are Associated with Shorter Telomere Length at Adult Age both in Individuals with an Anxiety Disorder and Controls

Accelerated leukocyte telomere shortening has been previously associated to self-perceived stress and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and mood disorders. We set out to investigate whether telomere length is affected in patients with anxiety disorders in which stress is a known risk fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peltonen, Leena
Other Authors: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57467