Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

High-throughput telomere length measurement at nucleotide resolution using the PacBio high fidelity sequencing platform

  • Cheng-Yong Tham,
  • LaiFong Poon,
  • TingDong Yan,
  • Javier Yu Peng Koh,
  • Muhammad Khairul Ramlee,
  • Vania Swee Imm Teoh,
  • Suihan Zhang,
  • Yi Cai,
  • Zebin Hong,
  • Gina S. Lee,
  • Jin Liu,
  • Hai Wei Song,
  • William Ying Khee Hwang,
  • Bin Tean Teh,
  • Patrick Tan,
  • Lifeng Xu,
  • Angela S. Koh,
  • Motomi Osato,
  • Shang Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35823-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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There exist challenges in quantifying the length of individual telomeres at single nucleotide resolution. Here the authors report a method to capture telomeres and accurately analyse their length in human cell lines and patient peripheral blood leukocyte samples using single-molecule real-time sequencing.