The Heritability of Telomere Length Among the Elderly and Oldest-Old
The Heritability of Telomere Length Among the Elderly and Oldest-Old
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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English
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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A tight link exists between telomere length and both population doublings of a cell culture and age of a given organism. The more population doublings of the cell culture or the higher the age of the organism, the shorter the telomeres. The proposed model for telomere shortening, called the end replication problem, explains why the telomere erodes...
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The Heritability of Telomere Length Among the Elderly and Oldest-Old
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_68670890
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_68670890
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1832-4274
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1839-2628
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10.1375/twin.8.5.433
