Masayuki Kimura

Best Publications

• Telomeres shorten at equivalent rates in somatic tissues of adults

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

  638
  Citations

• 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

  619
  Citations

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

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

  498
  Citations

• 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

  456
  Citations

• 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

  401
  Citations

• Leukocyte Telomere Length and Mortality in the Cardiovascular Health Study

  Annette L. Fitzpatrick;Richard A. Kronmal;Masayuki Kimura;Jeffrey P. Gardner

  310
  Citations

• Offspring's Leukocyte Telomere Length, Paternal Age, and Telomere Elongation in Sperm

  Masayuki Kimura;Lynn F Cherkas;Bernet S Kato;Serkalem Demissie

  308
  Citations

• Higher serum vitamin D concentrations are associated with longer leukocyte telomere length in women

  J Brent Richards;Ana M Valdes;Jeffrey P Gardner;Dimitri Paximadas

  303
  Citations

• Mapping Genetic Loci That Determine Leukocyte Telomere Length in a Large Sample of Unselected Female Sibling Pairs

  Toby Andrew;Abraham Aviv;Mario Falchi;Gabriela L. Surdulescu

  302
  Citations

• Genome-wide association identifies OBFC1 as a locus involved in human leukocyte telomere biology

  Daniel Levy;Susan L. Neuhausen;Steven C. Hunt;Masayuki Kimura

  293
  Citations

• Telomere attrition of the human abdominal aorta: relationships with age and atherosclerosis.

  Koji Okuda;M.Yusuf Khan;Joan Skurnick;Masayuki Kimura

  293
  Citations

• Leukocyte Telomere Length and Carotid Artery Intimal Medial Thickness: The Framingham Heart Study

  Christopher J. O’Donnell;Serkalem Demissie;Masayuki Kimura;Daniel Levy

  251
  Citations

• Menopause modifies the association of leukocyte telomere length with insulin resistance and inflammation.

  Abraham Aviv;Ana Valdes;Jeffrey P. Gardner;Rami Swaminathan

  222
  Citations

• Telomere length in leukocytes correlates with bone mineral density and is shorter in women with osteoporosis

  A. M. Valdes;J. B. Richards;J. P. Gardner;R. Swaminathan

  203
  Citations

• Synchrony of telomere length among hematopoietic cells

  Masayuki Kimura;Yair Gazitt;Xiaojian Cao;Xiangru Zhao

  194
  Citations

• Leukocyte telomere dynamics and human hematopoietic stem cell kinetics during somatic growth.

  Igor Sidorov;Masayuki Kimura;Anatoli Yashin;Abraham Aviv

  149
  Citations

• Nevus Size and Number Are Associated with Telomere Length and Represent Potential Markers of a Decreased Senescence In vivo

  Veronique Bataille;Bernet S. Kato;Mario Falchi;Jeffrey Gardner

  137
  Citations

• Reduced telomere length in rheumatoid arthritis is independent of disease activity and duration

  Sophia E Steer;Frances M K Williams;Bernet Kato;Jeffry P Gardner

  116
  Citations

• A mutant telomerase defective in nuclear‐cytoplasmic shuttling fails to immortalize cells and is associated with mitochondrial dysfunction

  Olga A. Kovalenko;Matthieu J. Caron;Perihan Ulema;Carolina Medrano

  113
  Citations

• Divergence of sperm and leukocyte age-dependent telomere dynamics: Implications for male-driven evolution of telomere length in humans

  Kenneth I. Aston;Steven C. Hunt;Ezra Susser;Masayuki Kimura

  109
  Citations