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Child relative leukocyte telomere length (rLTL) across age (n=224) predicted from a cubic spline mixed effects model stratified by child sex. Individual lines correspond to children and the bold lines reflects the population-level change for each group. Storage duration is fixed at the mean for all samples and all follow-up ages.
