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ArticleGenes & development2012

Telomere end processing: unexpected complexity at the end game.

Victoria Lundblad

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Article in Genes & development, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Telomere maintenance in African trypanosomes.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2023
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Telomeres and Cancer.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
    Review
  6. TERRA Gene Expression in Gastric Cancer: Role of hTERT.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2021
    Review
  7. Review
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  9. Article
  10. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Victoria LundbladSalk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. lundblad@salk.edu

Funding

Telomere Replication and Senescence in YeastR37AG011728 · NIA · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI LUNDBLAD, VICTORIA · 2003 to 2012
$3.8M
NIA NIH HHS R37 AG011728NIA NIH HHS R37 AG11728
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most human cells lack telomerase, the enzyme that elongates telomeres. The resulting telomere erosion eventually limits cell proliferation and tissue renewal, thereby impacting age-dependent pathologies. In this issue of Genes & Development, a technical tour-de-force by Chow and colleagues (pp. 1167-1178) reveals a highly choreographed sequence of events that processes newly replicated chromosome ends into mature telomeres. This sheds new light on an underappreciated contribution to telomere dynamics that may be as important as telomerase in dictating the correlation between life span and telomere length.

Indexed as

DNA ReplicationTelomere ShorteningHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID22661225
PMCPMC3371402

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