Mass famine may be associated with telomere shortening in male descendants of famine survivors, supporting the "thrifty telomere hypothesis", finds researchers based on a retrospective cohort study of survivors and descendants of a Chuvash population that experienced mass famine in 1922–1923.

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Mass famine may be associated with telomere shortening in male descendants of famine survivors, supporting the "thrifty telomere hypothesis", finds researchers based on a retrospective cohort study of survivors and descendants of a Chuvash population that experienced mass famine in 1922–1923.