Comparability of findings from qPCR-based telomere studies is hampered by such measurement results being assay-specific, precluding a direct quantitative comparisons of observed differences and/or slopes of associations between studies. It is proposed that this can be partially alleviated by expressing qPCR-based telomere data as Z-scores.

中文翻译：

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改善基于qPCR的端粒研究之间的可比性。

基于qPCR的端粒研究结果的可比性受到特定于测定的测量结果的阻碍，从而无法对研究之间观察到的差异和/或斜率进行直接的定量比较。建议通过将基于qPCR的端粒数据表示为Z分数可以部分缓解这种情况。