Leukocyte Telomere Length in HIV-Infected and HIV-Exposed Uninfected Children: Shorter Telomeres with Uncontrolled HIV Viremia

• Hélène C. F. Côté ,

  * E-mail: helene.cote@ubc.ca

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada, Centre for Blood Research, Vancouver, Canada

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• Hugo Soudeyns,

  Affiliations Unité d’immunopathologie virale, Centre de Recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Canada, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

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• Anona Thorne,

  Affiliation CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network, Vancouver, Canada

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• Ariane Alimenti,

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of BC, Vancouver, Canada

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• Valérie Lamarre,

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, Service des maladies infectieuses, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Canada

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• Evelyn J. Maan,

  Affiliation Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of BC, Vancouver, Canada

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• Beheroze Sattha,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Joel Singer,

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network, Vancouver, Canada

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• Normand Lapointe,

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, Centre maternel et infantile sur le SIDA, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Canada

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• Deborah M. Money,

  Affiliations Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada, BC Women’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• John Forbes,

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of BC, Vancouver, Canada

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• the CIHR Emerging Team in HIV therapy, aging (CARMA)