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Telomere Length and the Cancer–Atherosclerosis Trade-Off

Modern humans, the longest-living terrestrial mammals, display short telomeres and repressed telomerase activity in somatic tissues compared with most short-living small mammals. The dual trait of short telomeres and repressed telomerase might render humans relatively resistant to cancer compared wi...

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Autores principales: Stone, Rivka C., Horvath, Kent, Kark, Jeremy D., Susser, Ezra, Tishkoff, Sarah A., Aviv, Abraham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27386863
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006144