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Early Childhood Predicts Telomere Length
by Karishma Abhishek on 
May 25, 2021 at 11:17 PM
Initial setting of Telomere length (TL) during prenatal development and in the first years of life may determine one s TL throughout childhood and potentially even into adulthood or older age. This TL is also found to
decrease most rapidly from birth to age 3, followed by a period of maintenance into the pre-puberty period (although sometimes it might lengthen) as per a study at the
Columbia Center for Children s Environmental Health at
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, published in the journal
Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Telomeres are protective caps on the tip of the genetic material - DNA that tend to shorten as we grow older. The study team followed children from birth to age 9 to evaluate the telomere length. ....

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