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. 2021 Mar 10;11:5589. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-84984-2

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Relative leukocyte telomere length (RLTL) dynamics in dairy cattle. All RLTL measurements were pre-adjusted for qPCR plate and qPCR row to account for known sources of measurement error. (a) Age in years at second RLTL measurement is significantly associated with RLTL change. (b) At all measurement times the present measurement (RLTL at time t) is clearly correlated with the previous measurement (RLTL at time t − 1) (estimate = 0.38, P < 0.001). The red line represents a perfect correlation. (c) RLTL over age in years. (d) RLTL over sample year. (e) Longitudinal RLTL change over age for all animals with at least 7 samples as example for RLTL variation. (f) Early-life change in RLTL over age at sampling and (g) over sampling year.