Human telomeres and recombination
Telomeres are DNA-protein complexes that help protecting the end of linear chromosomes. They consist of repetitive DNA, in mammals the repeat unit is the hexanucleotide TTAGGG, these repeats span 5-20 kb. Under normal conditions in somatic cells, telomeres get shorter with every population doubling...
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University of Leicester
2013
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.568195 |