Estimating telomere length from whole genome sequence data

Telomeres play a key role in replicative ageing and undergo age-dependent attrition in vivo. Here, we report a novel method, TelSeq, to measure average telomere length from whole genome or exome shotgun sequence data. In 260 leukocyte samples, we show that TelSeq results correlate with Southern blot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ding, Zhihao, Mangino, Massimo, Aviv, Abraham, Spector, Tim, Durbin, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
Materias:
Methods Online
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24609383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku181
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Sumario:Telomeres play a key role in replicative ageing and undergo age-dependent attrition in vivo. Here, we report a novel method, TelSeq, to measure average telomere length from whole genome or exome shotgun sequence data. In 260 leukocyte samples, we show that TelSeq results correlate with Southern blot measurements of the mean length of terminal restriction fragments (mTRFs) and display age-dependent attrition comparably well as mTRFs.

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