Figure 6.

TRF results from three normal individuals (A) and 16 CML cases (B and C). General shortened telomeres can be seen in all samples except for one case (lane 14, case 06H097). Some CML show uncommon telomere fragments, which appear as fuzzy bands (blue arrows in panel B) and represent long telomeres. Two cases, 06H069 (lane 15) and 02H077 (lane 16), the long telomere fragments seem as typical sharp bands (red arrows in panel C) distinct from those short telomere fragments that are distributed as smears in the gel. The molecular markers (kb) are labeled at left and right sides of the panels. Their individual telomere lengths are also shown in Figure 5.