PLOS Papers on Telomeres and Copy Number, Gallbladder Typhus, Cat Hepadnavirus

Oct 26, 2020

In PLOS Genetics, researchers from the National Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Broad Institute explore the relationship between clonal somatic copy number alterations (SCNA) and genetically predicted telomere length in peripheral blood leukocyte cells, based on genotyping array profiles for more than 431,500 UK Biobank participants.

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