Genetically predicted telomere length is associated with clonal somatic copy number alterations in peripheral leukocytes

• Derek W. Brown ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: derek.brown@nih.gov

  Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America, Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8393-1713

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• Shu-Hong Lin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4020-7714

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• Po-Ru Loh,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5542-9064

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• Stephen J. Chanock,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2324-3393

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• Sharon A. Savage,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6006-0740

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• Mitchell J. Machiela

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6538-9705

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