Estimating telomere length from whole genome sequence data

Telomeres play a key role in replicative ageing and undergo age-dependent attrition in vivo. Here, we report a novel method, TelSeq, to measure average telomere length from whole genome or exome shotgun sequence data. In 260 leukocyte samples, we show that TelSeq results correlate with Southern blot...

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Main Authors: Ding, Zhihao, Mangino, Massimo, Aviv, Abraham, Spector, Tim, Durbin, Richard
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027178/