Telomere maintenance by recombination in
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Reddel, Roger R.; Dunham, Melissa A.; Neumann, Axel A.; Fasching, Clare L.
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Article
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2000
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Nature Publishing Group
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English
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Telomeres of eukaryotic chromosomes contain many tandem repeats of a G-rich sequence (for example, TTAGGG in vertebrates). In most normal human cells, telomeres shorten with each cell division, and it is proposed that this limits the number of times these cells can replicate. Telomeres may be mainta