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Published in final edited form as: J Immunol Methods. 2009 Oct 21;352(1-2):71–80. doi: 10.1016/j.jim.2009.09.012

Table 5.

Within-person correlations for telomere length and telomerase activity by cell type.

	Telomere length					Telomerase activity

	B	CD4+	CD8+CD28+	CD8+CD28−	PBMC	B	CD4+	CD8+CD28+	CD8+CD28−	PBMC
Telomere length
B	1	0.36 ^**	0.50 ^**	0.33 ^*	0.35 ^*	0.12
CD4+		1	0.46 ^**	0.67 ^***	0.25		0.14
CD8+CD28+			1	0.54 ^**	0.63 ^***			−0.00
CD8+CD28−				1	0.40 ^**				0.13
PBMC					1					0.06
Telomerase activity
B						1	0.35 ^*	0.23	0.16	0.20
CD4+							1	0.55 ^***	0.44 ^**	0.02
CD8+CD28+								1	0.34 ^*	0.16
CD8+CD28−									1	0.09
PBMC										1

N varies due to missing data points, N = 30 to 61.

^*

p < 0.05.

^**

p < 0.01.

^***

p < 0.001.