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Diet-related telomere shortening and chromosome stability.
Mutagenesis - 1 Jan 2012
Marcon Francesca, Siniscalchi Ester, Crebelli Riccardo, Saieva Calogero, Sera Francesco, Fortini Paola, Simonelli Valeria, Palli Domenico
Abstract excerpt
Recent evidences have highlighted an influence of micronutrients in the maintenance of telomere length (TL). In order to explore whether diet-related telomere shortening had any physiological relevance and was accompanied by significant damage in the genome, in the present study, TL was assessed by terminal restriction fragment (TRF) analysis in peripheral blood lymphocytes of 56 healthy subjects for which...
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