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Abraham Aviv is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a significant contribution to subfields such as Physiology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Aging, and Genetics.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cell Research
  • Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
  • Cytomegalovirus and Herpesvirus Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Abraham Aviv has published extensively in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Aging Cell
  • EBioMedicine
  • Frontiers in Immunology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Aviv are:

  • "Determinants of telomere length across human tissues," 2020, published in Science
  • "De novo mutations across 1,465 diverse genomes reveal mutational insights and reductions in the Amish founder population," 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Association of Leukocyte Telomere Length With Mortality Among Adult Participants in 3 Longitudinal Studies," 2020, published in JAMA Network Open
  • "Telomeres and COVID-19," 2020, published in The FASEB Journal
  • "Measurement of Telomere Length for Longitudinal Analysis: Implications of Assay Precision," 2021, published in American Journal of Epidemiology

Abraham Aviv has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Simon Verhulst
  • Tsung-Po Lai
  • Shahinaz M. Gadalla
  • Stephen R. Spellman
  • Ezra Susser

Best Publications

  • An epigenetic biomarker of aging for lifespan and healthspan

    Morgan E. Levine;Ake T. Lu;Austin Quach;Brian H. Chen

  • Obesity, cigarette smoking, and telomere length in women.

    A. M. Valdes;T. Andrew;J. P. Gardner;M. Kimura

  • DNA methylation GrimAge strongly predicts lifespan and healthspan.

    Ake T. Lu;Austin Quach;James G. Wilson;Alex P. Reiner

  • Leukocyte Telomere Length and Cardiovascular Disease in the Cardiovascular Health Study

    Annette L. Fitzpatrick;Richard A. Kronmal;Jeffrey P. Gardner;Bruce M. Psaty

  • Telomere Length as an Indicator of Biological Aging: The Gender Effect and Relation With Pulse Pressure and Pulse Wave Velocity

    Athanase Benetos;Koji Okuda;Malika Lajemi;Masayuki Kimura

  • The Association Between Physical Activity in Leisure Time and Leukocyte Telomere Length

    Lynn F. Cherkas;Janice L. Hunkin;Bernet S. Kato;J. Brent Richards

  • The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood

    Marjolein J. Peters;Roby Joehanes;Luke C. Pilling;Claudia Schurmann;Claudia Schurmann

  • Telomeres shorten at equivalent rates in somatic tissues of adults

    Lily Daniali;Athanase Benetos;Ezra Susser;Ezra Susser;Jeremy D. Kark

  • Telomere Length in the Newborn

    Koji Okuda;Arlene Bardeguez;Jeffrey P Gardner;Paulette Rodriguez

  • Insulin resistance, oxidative stress, hypertension, and leukocyte telomere length in men from the Framingham Heart Study

    S. Demissie;D. Levy;E. J. Benjamin;L. A. Cupples

  • Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

  • Epigenetic clock for skin and blood cells applied to Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome and ex vivo studies

    Steve Horvath;Junko Oshima;Junko Oshima;George M. Martin;Ake T. Lu

  • Measurement of telomere length by the Southern blot analysis of terminal restriction fragment lengths

    Masayuki Kimura;Rivka C Stone;Steven C Hunt;Joan Skurnick

  • Telomere Length Inversely Correlates With Pulse Pressure and Is Highly Familial

    Elisabeth Jeanclos;Nicholas J. Schork;Nicholas J. Schork;Kirsten O. Kyvik;Masayuki Kimura

  • Rise in Insulin Resistance Is Associated With Escalated Telomere Attrition

    Jeffrey P. Gardner;Shengxu Li;Sathanur R. Srinivasan;Wei Chen

  • Impartial comparative analysis of measurement of leukocyte telomere length/DNA content by Southern blots and qPCR.

    Abraham Aviv;Steven C. Hunt;Jue Lin;Xiaojian Cao

  • Telomere length and possible link to X chromosome.

    Tim S Nawrot;Jan A Staessen;Jeffrey P Gardner;Abraham Aviv

  • Homocysteine Thiolactone and Protein Homocysteinylation in Human Endothelial Cells: Implications for Atherosclerosis

    Hieronim Jakubowski;Li Zhang;Arlene Bardeguez;Abram Aviv

  • Leukocyte telomeres are longer in African Americans than in whites: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study and the Bogalusa Heart Study.

    Steven C. Hunt;Wei Chen;Jeffrey P. Gardner;Masayuki Kimura

  • The effects of social status on biological aging as measured by white-blood-cell telomere length

    L. F. Cherkas;A. Aviv;A. M. Valdes;J. L. Hunkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Masayuki Kimura
Masayuki Kimura Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Athanase Benetos
Athanase Benetos University of Lorraine
Kaare Christensen
Kaare Christensen University of Southern Denmark
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy National Institutes of Health
Simon Verhulst
Simon Verhulst University of Groningen
Alexander P. Reiner
Alexander P. Reiner University of Washington
Ezra Susser
Ezra Susser Columbia University
Steven C. Hunt
Steven C. Hunt Cornell University
Massimo Mangino
Massimo Mangino King's College London

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