Different rates of telomere attrition in peripheral lymphocytes in a pair of dizygotic twins with hematopoietic chimerism

Aging Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 663-666

  Brüderlein, Silke ^a   Müller, Kathrin ^a   Melzner, Julia ^a   Högel, Josef ^a   Wiegand, Peter ^a   Möller, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimeric twins; Gender differences; Telomere attrition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; TELOMERE;

ADULT; CHIMERA; CHIMERISM; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TELOMERE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 52449097959     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2008.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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