Possible technical and biological explanations for the ‘parental telomere length inheritance discrepancy’ enigma

A non-genetic, epigenetic-like mechanism of telomere length inheritance?

(2013) Tim De Meyer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Meta-analysis of telomere length in 19 713 subjects reveals high heritability, stronger maternal inheritance and a paternal age effect

(2013) Linda Broer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Inconsistent inheritance of telomere length (TL): is offspring TL more strongly correlated with maternal or paternal TL?

(2013) Dan T A Eisenberg   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Association Between Telomere Length and Experimentally Induced Upper Respiratory Viral Infection in Healthy Adults

(2013) Sheldon Cohen et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Fifteen-Year Follow-up of Association Between Telomere Length and Incident Cancer and Cancer Mortality

(2011) Peter Willeit et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

An evolutionary review of human telomere biology: The thrifty telomere hypothesis and notes on potential adaptive paternal effects

(2010) Dan T.A. Eisenberg   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Common variants near TERC are associated with mean telomere length

(2010) Veryan Codd et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Large-scale parent–child comparison confirms a strong paternal influence on telomere length

(2009) Katarina Nordfjäll et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS