ArticleFrontiers in medicine2018
Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Polymorphism rs2736100: A Balancing Act between Cancer and Non-Cancer Disease, a Meta-Analysis.
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- Genetic Variants of the TERT Gene and Telomere Length in Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Biomedicines · 2022Article
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- TERT-Regulation and Roles in Cancer Formation.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Review
- Scar tissue to lung cancer; pathways and treatment.Journal of Cancer · 2019Review
- Variability within the humanOncoTargets and therapy · 2019Article
- Trade-offs in aging lung diseases: a review on shared but opposite genetic risk variants in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2018Review
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The enzyme telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) is essential for telomere maintenance. In replicating cells, maintenance of telomere length is important for the preservation of vital genetic information and prevention of genomic instability. A common genetic variant in
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