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Nucleic Acids Research, 2001, Vol. 29, No. 15 3164-3171
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Differences in telomere length between homologous chromosomes in humans

J. Arturo Londoño-Vallejo*, Héra DerSarkissian, Lucien Cazes and Gilles Thomas

Unité INSERM 434, Centre d’Etudes du Polymorphisme Humain, 27 Rue Juliette Dodu, 75010 Paris, France

Telomeres are important structures for DNA replication and chromosome stability during cell growth. Telomere length has been correlated with the division potential of human cells and has been found to decrease with age in healthy individuals. Nevertheless, telomere lengths within the same cell are heterogeneous and certain chromosome arms typically have either short or long telomeres. Both the origin and the physiological consequences of this heterogeneity in telomere length remain unknown. In this study we used quantitative telomeric FISH combined with a method to identify the parental origin of chromosomes to show that significant differences in relative telomere intensities are frequently observed between chromosomal homologs in short-term stimulated cultures of peripheral blood lymphocytes. These differences appear to be stable for at least 4 months in vivo, but disappear after prolonged proliferation in vitro. The telomere length differences are also stable during in vitro growth of telomerase-negative fibroblast cells but can be abolished by exogenous telomerase expression in these cells. These findings suggest the existence of a mechanism maintaining differences in telomere length between chromosome homologs that is independent of telomere length itself.

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