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. 2023 Jan 15;207(2):208-211.
doi: 10.1164/rccm.202204-0766LE.

Peripheral Blood Telomere Attrition in Persons at Risk for Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis

Margaret L Salisbury  1 , Cheryl R Markin  1 , Pingsheng Wu  1 , Joy D Cogan  1 , Daphne B Mitchell  1 , Qi Liu  1 , James E Loyd  1 , Lisa H Lancaster  1 , Jonathan A Kropski  1   2   3 , Timothy S Blackwell  1   2   3
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Peripheral Blood Telomere Attrition in Persons at Risk for Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis

Margaret L Salisbury et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. .
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Figure 1.
The relationship between personal and familial telomerase pathway rare variant (RV) carrier status and peripheral blood telomere length at baseline and during follow-up. (A) The data distribution for %-eMTL at enrollment, stratified by individual and family telomerase RV carrier status. (B) The data distribution for the annualized change in MTL (in kb) stratified by individual and family telomerase RV carrier status. The data are shown as mean (diamond), range (whiskers), first and third quartiles (lower and upper box lines, respectively), and median (center box line). The individual data points are green circles. %-eMTL = percent of expected mean telomere length; MTL = mean telomere length.
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