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Telomere

"Telomere" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A terminal section of a chromosome which has a specialized structure and which is involved in chromosomal replication and stability. Its length is believed to be a few hundred base pairs.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Telomere" by people in this website by year, and whether "Telomere" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 58 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2018
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