Research Paper Volume 8, Issue 7 pp 1398—1415
Longitudinal decline of leukocyte telomere length in old age and the association with sex and genetic risk
Figure 3. Predicted trajectories for men and women based on parameter estimates from the two-slope model of leukocyte telomere length (LTL) including sex and genetic risk score (GRS) effects. Male sex and addition of risk alleles in the GRS each result in shorter LTL. A decline after the centering age of 69.3 years is apparent for both men and women. Age in years is on the x-axis, and the plate-adjusted residuals of LTL re-scaled back to T/S-ratio is on the y-axis. The dashed line indicates centering age and the left corner panel is a zoomed version.