1 Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas CSIC/UAM, C/Arturo Duperier, 4 Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) de Enfermedades Raras, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Telomeres are the protective structures at the ends of linear chromosomes that progressively shorten each time that a cell divides, which is in part caused by the end-replication problem [...].