Alcohol consumption and telomere length: observational and Mendelian randomisation approaches

Alcohols impact on telomere length, a proposed marker of biological age, is unclear. We performed the largest observational study to date and compared findings with Mendelian randomization (MR) estimates. Two-sample MR used data from a recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) of telomere length....

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Main Authors: Topiwala, A, Taschler, B, Ebmeier, KP, Smith, S, Zhou, H, Levey, DF, Codd, V, Samani, N, Gelernter, J, Nichols, TE, Burgess, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2021