Re: Life Expectancy

From: EWyatt794@aol.com
Date: Sat Jun 12 1999 - 13:33:47 MDT


In a message dated 6/12/99 3:30:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
wbadger@psyberlink.net writes:

<< Seems reasonable enough, but I would suggest identifying individuals with
 pendulously long telomeres (see. size does matter!) >>

I was under the impression that Dolly the sheep has very short telomeres
(indicating advanced age) but is phenotypically a 3 year old sheep. So, her
genotype doesn't match up to her phenotype according to the telomere/aging
theory. Doesn't this present problems to the theory?

Anyone know more than I about this?

William



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