Telomere-related sequences at interstitial sites in the human genome

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The ends (telomeres) of eukaryotic chromosomes are protected from degradation and from loss during DNA replication by buffers of simple tandem repetitive sequence. The nucleotide sequence of these telomeric arrays is fundamental to telomere function as a site for protein and ribonucleoprotein binding and varies only slightly in a wide range of organisms. We present evidence that arrays of this human telomeric...

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