A measurement of telomere length measures the number of TTAGGG repeats at the end of the chromosome. As cell division proceeds telomeres shorten, telomere length is measure of cellular aging. (Experimental Factor Ontology, EFO_0004505)
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1 genes associated with the disease telomere length in GWAS and other genetic association datasets from the GAD Gene-Disease Associations dataset.