Telomere length shortening in hospitalized preterm infants: A pilot study

Mandy Brown Belfort; Farah Qureshi; Jonathan Litt; Michelle Bosquet Enlow; Immaculata De Vivo; Katherine Gregory; Henning Tiemeier

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0243468

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Telomere length shortening in hospitalized preterm infants: A pilot study

Mandy Brown Belfort ,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mbelfort@bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8799-3313

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Farah Qureshi,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jonathan Litt,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Michelle Bosquet Enlow,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Immaculata De Vivo,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Katherine Gregory,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Henning Tiemeier

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

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Telomere length shortening in hospitalized preterm infants: A pilot study

Mandy Brown Belfort,
Farah Qureshi,
Jonathan Litt,
Michelle Bosquet Enlow,
Immaculata De Vivo,
Katherine Gregory,
Henning Tiemeier

Published: January 20, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243468

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