Editorial Interstitial Lung Disease by Samantha J. Merck and Mary Armanios October 28, 2016. Over the past decade, it has become evident that abnormally short telomeres are a causal risk factor for pulmonary fibrosis in a large subset of patients. Mutations in the genes that code for the telomerase enzyme essential components are the most […]

Editorial in NEJM by Peter Lansdorp, M.D., Ph.D. May 19, 2016 In a study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, Townsley et al. found that patients with diseases that are thought to result from defective telomere maintenance benefit from treatment with androgenic anabolic steroids.1 All 12 of the patients they examined had normalization […]

“The large-scale genetic study, conducted at the University of Chicago Medical Center, looked at the link between telomere length and risk for five common cancers. No significant associations between telomere length and other cancer types or subtypes were observed.” The findings were published in Human Molecular Genetics in July, 2015. Read more

“In the clinical setting, flow-FISH was more accurate, reproducible, sensitive, and specific in the measurement of human leukocyte’s telomere length in comparison to qPCR.” Read more

Repeat Diagnostics’ 6-Panel telomere assay, is the diagnostic test of choice in identifying patients with Dyskeratosis Congenita (DC), an inherited bone marrow failure syndrome. Physicians from seven institutions including NCI and NIH reported that the QPCR relative measurement lacked sensitivity and would lead to misdiagnosis of 60% of known DC patients. Read more