Paternal age at conception effects on offspring telomere length across species—What explains the variability?

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Telomeres, the repeating DNA sequences found at the ends of chromosomes, are dynamic and complex parts of the genome with important health and fitness consequences.In this issue of PLOS Genetics, Bauch and colleagues [1] help to extend our understanding of telomere biology in important ways.Although telomeres are DNA, they do not act like DNA is "supposed" to.Telomeres get shorter with each round of mitosis due...

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