Telomere variant sequences encode the genetic blueprint for allele-specific telomere length
Xiaoran Chai, Lai-Fong Poon, Hengrui Liu, Manvendra Kumar Singh, Takashi Minami, Goro Sashida, Masafumi Fukuda, Bin Tean Teh, Patrick B. O. Tan, William Ying Khee Hwang, Jue Lin, Angela Su-Mei Koh, Tatsuro Kondoh, Lifeng Xu, Motomi Osato, , Shang Li
The paper identifies heritable telomere variant sequences that determine allele-specific telomere length and shows their role in telomere maintenance and inheritance.
Nature Communications · Sep 7, 2026Peer-reviewedGenetics