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Telomere maintenance and cancer ? look, no telomerase
Activation of a telomere maintenance mechanism seems to be indispensable for the immortalization of human cells. Most cancers and cancer cell lines maintain their telomeres via telomerase. In some cancers, how...
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Telomere maintenance by recombination in human cells
Telomeres of eukaryotic chromosomes contain many tandem repeats of a G-rich sequence (for example, TTAGGG in vertebrates1). In most normal human cells, telomeres shorten with each cell division, and it is propose...