Are long telomeres better than short? Relative contributions of genetically predicted telomere length to neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease risk and population health burden

• Ekaterina Protsenko,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• David Rehkopf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stanford Department of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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• Aric A. Prather,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCSF Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Elissa Epel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCSF Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Jue Lin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jue.lin@ucsf.edu

  Affiliation UCSF Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7216-1610

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