The association between telomere length and mortality in

The association between telomere length and mortality in Bangladesh Samantha G. Dean, Chenan Zhang, Jianjun Gao, Shantanu Roy, Justin Shinkle, Mekala Sabarinathan, Maria Argos, Lin Tong, Alauddin Ahmed, Md. Tariqul Islam, Tariqul Islam, Muhammad Rakibuz‐Zaman,Golam Sarwar,Hasan Shahriar, Mahfuzar Rahman, Md. Yunus, Joseph H. Graziano, Lin S. Chen, Farzana Jasmine , Muhammad G. Kibriya, Habibul Ahsan, Brandon L. Pierce Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA UChicago Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615, USA Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615, USA Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615, USA Current address: Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta GA, 30333, USA Correspondence to: Brandon Pierce; email: [email protected]