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Assessing telomeric DNA content in pediatric cancers using whole-genome sequencing data
11 Dec 2012
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BACKGROUND: Telomeres are the protective arrays of tandem TTAGGG sequence and associated proteins at the termini of chromosomes. Telomeres shorten at each cell division due to the end-replication problem and are maintained above a critical threshold in malignant cancer cells to prevent cellular senescence or apoptosis. With the recent advances in massive parallel sequencing, assessing telomere content in the...
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