highly significantp < 0.0001
Premature thymic aging in cALL survivors To determine the normal rate of T-cell compartment immunoaging we measured blood TREC levels normalized to the T-cell count in the Quebec reference population and observed a highly significant correlation with chronological age for both men and women (Pearson correlation: males, r = −0.466; females, r = −0.504; p < 0.0001) (Fig. 1A , controls).