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Functional characterization of natural telomerase mutations found in patients with hematologic disorders.
Blood - 15 Jan 2007
Xin Zhong-Tao, Beauchamp Adam D, Calado Rodrigo T, Bradford Jennifer W, Regal Joshua A, Shenoy Aarthi, Liang Yuying, Lansdorp Peter M, Young Neal S, Ly Hinh
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Human telomerase hTERC RNA serves as a template for the catalytic hTERT protein to synthesize telomere repeats at chromosome ends. We have recently shown that some patients with bone marrow failure syndromes are heterozygous carriers for hTERC or hTERT mutations. These sequence variations usually lead to a compromised telomerase function by haploinsufficiency. Here, we provide functional characterization of an...
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