[Cancer as a microevolutionary process affecting telomere structure and dynamics: the contribution of telomeres to cancer].

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Telomeres play fundamental roles in genome stability, nuclear architecture and chromosome pairing during meiosis. They shorten at every cell division and may be re-elongated or not depending on the presence of the dedicated enzyme, telomerase. Since in most human somatic cells telomerase is not expressed, shortening of telomeres during development and aging is the rule. Short telomeres being, under physiological...

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