Sex-specific telomere length profiles and age-dependent erosion dynamics of individual chromosome arms in humans

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 194-201

  Mayer, S ^a   Bruderlein S ^a   Perner, S ^a   Waibel, I ^a   Holdenried, A ^a   Ciloglu, N ^a   Hasel, C ^a   Mattfeldt, T ^a   Nielsen, K V ^b   Moller P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CENTROMERE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ARM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METAPHASE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TELOMERE;

EID: 32944465741     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089870     Document Type: Article

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