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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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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 |