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Techniques for assessing telomere length: A methodological review.
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- Maternal biological ageing and telomere attrition across parity, pregnancy, and the postpartum period.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- A Proposed Clinical Diagnostic Framework for Short Telomere Syndrome.Clinical genetics · 2026Review
- The ageing holobiont: crosstalk between telomere dynamics, oxidative stress and the gut microbiome.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Quantifying telomere length: from bulk assays to single-molecule resolution.Biophysics reports · 2026Article
- Genetic Determinants of Telomere Length and Their Role in Human Disease: Molecular Mechanisms and Underrepresented Populations' Perspectives.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- DNA methylation-based estimator of blood telomere length (DNAmTL) outperforms qPCR-based telomere length in reflecting clinical and sociodemographic factors in people with HIV infection.Clinical epigenetics · 2026Article
- From the lab to lifestyle: epigenetic clocks in personalized aging and health.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- De novo assembly at Chromosomal level of the Indigenous Venda chicken.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Short and complex-Telomeres and genomes in CLL.British journal of haematology · 2026Article
- Multiparametric Characterization of Telomere Length in T Cells by Flow-FISH.Current protocols · 2026Article
- Molecular Age Estimation: Current Perspectives and Future Considerations.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Epitranscriptomic control of telomere maintenance.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- TARPON-A Telomere Analysis and Research Pipeline Optimized for Nanopore.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Telomerase mRNA therapy protects human skin against radiation-induced DNA damage.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026Article
- Accelerated immunosenescence in SLE: current evidence and clinical translation.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Nanoparticle-Based Tools to Study Hallmarks of Aging at the Molecular Level.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Review
- Suspected parental gonadal/gonadosomatic mosaicism for a TINF2 mutation in two sisters with dyskeratosis congenita.Frontiers in genetics · 2026Article
- Telomere Length Abnormality: Investigating Approaches and Correlations with Cancer, Bone Marrow Failure and Hematological Malignancies.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Maternal Telomere Length and Its Influence on Neonatal Parameters: A Potential Tool for Prenatal Screening.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Observational
- How to measure and model cardiovascular aging.Cardiovascular research · 2025Review
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Abstract
Telomeres are located at the ends of chromosomes and have specific sequences with a distinctive structure that safeguards genes. They possess capping structures that protect chromosome ends from fusion events and ensure chromosome stability. Telomeres shorten in length during each cycle of cell division. When this length reaches a certain threshold, it can lead to genomic instability, thus being implicated in various diseases, including cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. The possibility of telomeres serving as a biomarker for aging and age-related disease is being explored, and their significance is still under study. This is because post-mitotic cells, which are mature cells that do not undergo mitosis, do not experience telomere shortening due to age. Instead, other causes, for example, exposure to oxidative stress, can directly damage the telomeres, causing genomic instability. Nonetheless, a general agreement has been established that measuring telomere length offers valuable insights and forms a crucial foundation for analyzing gene expression and epigenetic data. Numerous approaches have been developed to accurately measure telomere lengths. In this review, we summarize various methods and their advantages and limitations for assessing telomere length.
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