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Child relative leukocyte telomere length across age (n=224) predicted from a cubic spline mixed effects model stratified by high vs. low maternal rLTL at delivery based on dichotomization at the maternal rLTL median. Individual lines correspond to children and the bold lines reflects the population-level means for each group. Storage duration is fixed at the mean for all samples and all follow-up ages.
