Supplemental Table 1. Spearman rank order correlations between individual analysis methods. Significant (p<0.05) coefficients (rs) are indicated in bold. Supplemental Table 2. Impact of amount of starting DNA on telomere lengths (n=3) calculated using 4 different analysis methods and applying 2 different equations.

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