About the Authors
- Aoife O'Donovan
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* E-mail: aoife.odonovan@ucsf.edu
Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Matthew S. Pantell
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Affiliation University of California, Berkeley-University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Program, Berkeley and San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Eli Puterman
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Firdaus S. Dhabhar
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Kristine Yaffe
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Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Richard M. Cawthon
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Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Patricia L. Opresko
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Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Wen-Chi Hsueh
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Suzanne Satterfield
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Anne B. Newman
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Hilsa N. Ayonayon
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Susan M. Rubin
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Tamara B. Harris
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Affiliation Laboratory for Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Elissa S. Epel
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- for the Health Aging and Body Composition Study
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts to declare. Drs. Epel and Blackburn are co-founders in a company measuring telomere diagnostics, Telomere Health Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. None of the other authors have competing interests in relation to this work.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AOD MP EHB EE. Analyzed the data: AOD MP EP RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RC. Wrote the paper: AOD MP EP FD EHB KY RC PLO W-CH SS ABN HNA SMR TBH EE. Interpretation of data: AOD MP EP FD EHB KY PLO W-CH SS ABN TBH EE. Critical administrative and technical support: HNA SMR.