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Telomere dysfunction in genome instability syndromes.
Mutation research - 1 Sept 2004
Callén Elsa, Surrallés Jordi
Abstract excerpt
Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes located at the end of eukaryotic chromosomes. They have essential roles in preventing terminal fusions, protecting chromosome ends from degradation, and in chromosome positioning in the nucleus. These terminal structures consist of a tandemly repeated DNA sequence (TTAGGG in vertebrates) that varies in length from 5 to 15 kb in humans. Several proteins are attached to this...
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