The importance of critically short telomere in myelodysplastic syndrome

• Main Authors: Dong-Yeop Shin (Author), Kyu Min Lim (Author), Hee Sue Park (Author), Sunghoon Kwon (Author), Sung-Soo Yoon (Author), Dong-Soon Lee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Highlights Telomere length (TL) has been reported to be important in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).A novel TeSLA method demonstrated the presence and abundance of extremely short telomeres (<1.0kb) in MDS.Critically short TL rather than an average TL is associated with the IPSS-R and BM blast in...