New insight into telomere maintenance

Aging

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 255-256

  Wu, Ryan T Y ^a   Cheng, Wen Hsing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA PK; Premature aging; Telomere; Telomeric D loop; WRN

Indexed keywords

AGING; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; NOTE; TELOMERE;

AGING; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; TELOMERE;

EID: 77955857346     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100147     Document Type: Note

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