Telomere Length, Aging, and Somatic Cell Turnover

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Telomeres are unique protein–DNA structures that comprise the termini of eukaryotic linear chromosomes (for review see references ([1][1]), ([2][2])). Telomeric DNA does not contain protein-encoding genes but rather consists of G-rich hexanucleotide repeats that in vertebrate cells are (TTAGGG)n

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