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Epigenetic inheritance of telomere length in wild birds

2018-03-18

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Telomere length (TL) predicts health and lifespan in humans and other organisms, making the identification of the causes of TL variation of interest. At conception, zygotes inherit genes that regulate TL during early development, but at the same time already express a phenotype, which is the TL of the parental gametes that formed the zygote. Whether the effect of gamete TL is transient or affects TL for life depen...

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Literature Corpus work: 16f8bb4f-a897-5e93-a2a6-3cd44e500701
DOI: 10.1101/284208

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