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Telomeres in cancer and ageing

Telomeres protect the chromosome ends from unscheduled DNA repair and degradation. Telomeres are heterochromatic domains composed of repetitive DNA (TTAGGG repeats) bound to an array of specialized proteins. The length of telomere repeats and the integrity of telomere-binding proteins are both impor...

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Autores principales: Donate, Luis E., Blasco, Maria A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21115533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0291