abd (version 0.1-21)

Telomeres: Telomere Shortening

Description

Telomere length (ratio) and years since their child's diagnosis with chronic illness.

Usage

data(Telomeres)

source

Epel, E.S., E.H. Blackburn, J. Lin, F.S. Dhabhar, N.E. Adler, J.D. Morrow, and R.M. Cawthon. 2004. Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 101: 17312-17315.

References

http://www.pnas.org/content/101/49/17312

Examples

data(Telomeres)
xyplot(years ~ telomere.length, Telomeres,
  xlab = "Time since diagnosis (years)",
  ylab = "Telomere length (ratio)"
)