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Bone marrow failure and the new telomere diseases: practice and research.
Hematology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Apr 2012
Young Neal S
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The telomeropathies are a newly described group of human diseases based on the genetics and molecular biology of the telomeres, the ends of chromosomes. Telomeres are repeated hexanucleotides and their associated proteins; the protect chromosomes from recognition as damaged DNA, and their inevitable gradual loss with DNA replication is harmless as they are noncoding. However, when telomeres become critically...
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