Beyond average: Potential for measurement of short telomeres

Aging

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 379-392

  Vera, Elsa ^a   Blasco, Maria A ^a  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigations Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Quantitative FISH; Quantitative PCR; Short telomeres; Telomere length; Telomeric southern blot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864981283     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100462     Document Type: Review

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