Search Results - "Horvath, Kent"
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Telomere Length and the Cancer-Atherosclerosis Trade-Off
Published in PLoS Genetics (07-07-2016)“…Modern humans, the longest-living terrestrial mammals, display short telomeres and repressed telomerase activity in somatic tissues compared with most…”
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Shorter telomere length in Europeans than in Africans due to polygenetic adaptation
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-06-2016)“…Leukocyte telomere length (LTL), which reflects telomere length in other somatic tissues, is a complex genetic trait. Eleven SNPs have been shown in…”
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SLX4 contributes to telomere preservation and regulated processing of telomeric joint molecule intermediates
Published in Nucleic acids research (13-07-2015)“…SLX4 assembles a toolkit of endonucleases SLX1, MUS81 and XPF, which is recruited to telomeres via direct interaction of SLX4 with TRF2. Telomeres present an…”
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SLX4 assembles a telomere maintenance toolkit by bridging multiple endonucleases with telomeres
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (01-09-2013)“…SLX4 interacts with several endonucleases to resolve structural barriers in DNA metabolism. SLX4 also interacts with telomeric protein TRF2 in human cells. The…”
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Paternal age and telomere length in twins: the germ stem cell selection paradigm
Published in Aging cell (01-08-2015)“…Summary Telomere length, a highly heritable trait, is longer in offspring of older fathers. This perplexing feature has been attributed to the longer telomeres…”
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Dimerization of SLX4 contributes to functioning of the SLX4-nuclease complex
Published in Nucleic acids research (02-06-2016)“…The Fanconi anemia protein SLX4 assembles a genome and telomere maintenance toolkit, consisting of the nucleases SLX1, MUS81 and XPF. Although it is known that…”
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Human RECQL1 participates in telomere maintenance
Published in Nucleic acids research (01-05-2014)“…A variety of human tumors employ alternative and recombination-mediated lengthening for telomere maintenance (ALT). Human RecQ helicases, such as BLM and WRN,…”
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Sex difference in leukocyte telomere length is ablated in opposite-sex co-twins
Published in International journal of epidemiology (01-12-2014)“…In eutherian mammals and in humans, the female fetus may be masculinized while sharing the intra-uterine environment with a male fetus. Telomere length (TL),…”
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DCAF4, a novel gene associated with leucocyte telomere length
Published in Journal of medical genetics (01-03-2015)“…Leucocyte telomere length (LTL), which is fashioned by multiple genes, has been linked to a host of human diseases, including sporadic melanoma. A number of…”
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Human RECQL1 participates in telomere maintenance
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