Assertion: telomere | /r/CapableOf | shorten with age
Facets:
value: normally
type: DEGREE
value: almost always
type: TEMPORAL
value: in other animals
type: OTHER
value: in humans
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Telomeres shorten with age, which has been associated in some adult studies with metabolic and inflammatory diseases, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, liver cirrhosis and ulcerative colitis.
text: Telomeres protect the ends of DNA like the plastic tubes on the ends of shoelaces, and they normally shorten with aging.
text: In humans and other animals, telomeres almost always shorten with age.
text: O'Sullivan et al1 and Risques et al28 measured telomeres in normal colonocytes in a relatively small sample set; they found not only the expected telomere shortening with age, but also some evidence of longer telomeres in the oldest individuals in the study.
text: Telomeres protect the ends of chromosomal DNA like the plastic tubes on the ends of shoelaces, and they normally shorten with aging.
text: With aging, telomeres shorten.