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Different telomere-length dynamics at the inner cell mass versus established embryonic stem (ES) cells
Elisa Varela, Ralph P. Schneider, Sagrario Ortega, and Maria A. Blasco
Elisa Varela
aTelomeres and Telomerase Group, Molecular Oncology Program, and
Ralph P. Schneider
aTelomeres and Telomerase Group, Molecular Oncology Program, and
Sagrario Ortega
bTransgenics Unit, Biotechnology Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid E-28029, Spain
Maria A. Blasco
aTelomeres and Telomerase Group, Molecular Oncology Program, and
Edited by Inder M. Verma, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, and approved July 15, 2011 (received for review April 6, 2011)

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- Published in issue September 13, 2011.
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mblasco{at}cnio.es.
Author contributions: E.V. and M.A.B. designed research; E.V., R.P.S., and S.O. performed research; E.V. and M.A.B. analyzed data; and E.V. and M.A.B. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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Different telomere-length dynamics at the inner cell mass versus established embryonic stem (ES) cells
Elisa Varela, Ralph P. Schneider, Sagrario Ortega, Maria A. Blasco
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2011, 108 (37) 15207-15212; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105414108
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