FIGURE 3.
Telomere length in leukocyte subsets from the 22 patients with porto-sinusoidal vascular disorder considered idiopathic. The 6 leukocyte subsets tested are lymphocytes, granulocytes, naive T cells (CD45RA pos), memory T cells (CD45RA neg), B cells (CD20 pos), and NK/NKT cells (CD57 pos). The colored lines represent percentiles of telomere length measurements in kilobases (kb) from over 400 healthy individuals [ref.7,17,18,35]: red, 99th percentile; yellow, 90th percentile, dark green, 50th percentile (median); light green, 10th percentile; turquoise, 1st percentile. Symbols represent individual patients: blue diamonds, normal telomere length; red squares, short telomere length; and green triangles, very short telomere length. Abbreviations: NK, natural killer; NKT, natural killer T.