Figure 2From: Maternal cigarette smoking and its effect on neonatal lymphocyte subpopulations and replication Relative telomere length (RTL) in non-smoking (NSM) and smoking mothers (SM) and newborns. Newborns of SM had significantly longer telomeres than newborns of NSM (** p < 0.01). Regardless of smoking habits, mothers had shorter telomeres than their respective newborns (*** p < 0.001). Non-parametric Mann–Whitney-U test.Back to article page