Estimating telomere length from whole genome sequence data

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Ding, Zhihao ^a   Mangino, Massimo ^b   Aviv, Abraham ^c   Spector, Tim ^b   Durbin, Richard ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOME; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE LENGTH;

ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84899643560     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku181     Document Type: Article

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