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The contribution of parent-to-offspring transmission of telomeres to the heritability of telomere length in humans

2018-03-05

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is a heritable trait with two potential sources of heritability (h 2 ): inherited variation in non-telomeric regions (e.g., SNPs that influence telomere maintenance) and variability in the lengths of telomeres in gametes that produce offspring zygotes (i.e., “direct” inheritance). Prior studies of LTL h 2 have not attempted to disentangle these two sources. Here...

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Literature Corpus work: 6be93f2b-8672-571e-b676-363a5ff05ac2
DOI: 10.1101/276030

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