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Joan Skurnick
Researcher at Rutgers University
Publications - 103
Citations - 8515
Joan Skurnick is an academic researcher from Rutgers University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Telomere. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 103 publications receiving 8103 citations. Previous affiliations of Joan Skurnick include University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
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Factors Associated with Age at Natural Menopause in a Multiethnic Sample of Midlife Women
Ellen B. Gold,Joyce T. Bromberger,Sybil L. Crawford,Steve J. Samuels,Gail A. Greendale,Siobán D. Harlow,Joan Skurnick +6 more
TL;DR: This sample is one of the largest and most diverse ever studied, and comprehensive statistical methods were used to assess factors associated with age at natural menopause.
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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,Frédérique Thomas,Joan Skurnick,Carlos Labat,Kathryn Bean,Abraham Aviv +8 more
TL;DR: The longer telomere length in women suggests that for a given chronological age, biological aging of men is more advanced than that of women, such that men with shorter telomeres length are more likely to exhibit high pulse pressure and pulse wave velocity, which are indices of large artery stiffness.
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Characterization of reproductive hormonal dynamics in the perimenopause.
TL;DR: Altered ovarian function in the perimenopause can be observed as early as age 43 yr and include hyperestrogenism, hypergonadotropism, and decreased luteal phase progesterone excretion, which may well be responsible for the increased gynecological morbidity that characterizes this period of life.
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Telomere Length in the Newborn
Koji Okuda,Arlene Bardeguez,Jeffrey P. Gardner,Paulette Rodriguez,Vijaya Ganesh,Masayuki Kimura,Joan Skurnick,Girgis Awad,Abraham Aviv +8 more
TL;DR: There is no evidence for the effect of sex on telomere length at birth, suggesting that longer telomeres in women than men arise from a slower rate of telomeric attrition in women.
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Measurement of telomere length by the Southern blot analysis of terminal restriction fragment lengths
Masayuki Kimura,Rivka C. Stone,Steven C. Hunt,Joan Skurnick,Xiaobin Lu,Xiaojian Cao,Calvin B. Harley,Abraham Aviv +7 more
TL;DR: A method to obtain telomere length parameters using Southern blots of terminal restriction fragments (TRFs) is described, which requires a considerable amount of DNA and measures both the canonical and noncanonical components of telomeres.