Telomere length dynamics in early life: the blood-and-muscle model - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 2018 Jan;32(1):529-534.
doi: 10.1096/fj.201700630R. Epub 2017 Aug 29.
Simon Verhulst 2, George Guirguis 3, Jeremy D Kark 4, Carlos Labat 5, Natalie E Roche 3, Kristina Martimucci 3, Krunal Patel 3, Debra S Heller 6, Masayuki Kimura 7, Donald Chuang 7, Anne Chuang 7, Athanase Benetos 5 8, Abraham Aviv 9
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- PMID: 28855279
- PMCID: PMC5731134
- DOI: 10.1096/fj.201700630R
Telomere length dynamics in early life: the blood-and-muscle model
Sanjeev Sabharwal et al. FASEB J. 2018 Jan.
Abstract
Telomere length (TL) trajectories in somatic tissues during human growth and development are poorly understood. We examined a blood-and-muscle model during early life, focusing on TL trajectories in leukocytes, representing the highly proliferative hematopoietic system, and skeletal muscle, a minimally proliferative tissue. Leukocyte TL (LTL) and skeletal muscle TL (MTL) were measured in 28 fetuses and 73 children. LTL and MTL were highly variable across individuals (sd: fetal LTL = 0.72 kb, MTL = 0.72 kb; children LTL = 0.81 kb, MTL = 0.82 kb) but were highly correlated within individuals (fetuses, r = 0.76, P < 0.0001; children, r = 0.87, P < 0.0001). LTL was shorter than MTL in fetuses (10.63 vs. 11.01 kb; P = 0.0004) and children (8.46 vs. 9.40 kb; <0.0001). The LTL-MTL gap was smaller in fetuses than children. TL in children was inversely correlated with body mass index (BMI) (LTL: -0.047 ± 0.016 kb/BMI, P < 0.005; MTL: -0.037 ± 0.017 kb/BMI, P = 0.03). We conclude that variations in TL across adults and differences in TL between somatic tissues are largely established in early life. Because TL plays a significant role in aging-related diseases, insight into the factors that fashion TL in somatic tissues during early development should contribute to an understanding of the relationship of TL with these disease and longevity in humans.-Sabharwal, S., Verhulst, S., Guirguis, G., Kark, J. D., Labat, C., Roche, N. E., Martimucci, K., Patel, K., Heller, D. S., Kimura, M., Chuang, D., Chuang, A., Benetos, A., Aviv, A. Telomere length dynamics in early life: the blood-and-muscle model.
Keywords: children; fetus; leukocytes.
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Figures
Figure 1.
LTL vs. MTL. Black dotted line, line of identity; blue line and dotted blue lines, regression line and 95% confidence interval of LTL and MTL data in adults (9).
Figure 2.
TL parameters in fetuses and children compared to adults. Adult TL parameters (9) are displayed as means ± 2
sd
for comparison with those of fetuses and children. Fetuses were on average in 18th wk of gestation; children and adults were on average 12 and 44 yr old. Horizontal bars indicate mean values.
Figure 3.
LTL vs. BMI in children. LTL was adjusted for age and sex. See
Supplemental Table S1
for statistical details.
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