Human telomere length correlates to the size of the associated chromosome arm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Wise, Jasen L ^a   Crout, Richard J ^b   Mcneil, Daniel W ^b   Weyant, Robert J ^c   Marazita, Mary L ^c   Wenger, Sharon L ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b West Virginia University School of Dentistry   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME SIZE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; METAPHASE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TELOMERE; AGE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; KARYOTYPING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX FACTORS; TELOMERE;

EID: 67650280849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006013     Document Type: Article

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