Assessment of telomere length and factors that contribute to its stability
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- 13 January 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 270 (3) , 389-403
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03410.x
Abstract
Short strands of tandem hexameric repeats known as telomeres cap the ends of linear chromosomes. These repeats protect chromosomes from degradation and prevent chromosomal end‐joining, a phenomenon t...Keywords
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