Figure 1. Age-adjusted relative telomere length.

In subjects belonging to LS families: MMR gene mutation carriers affected with cancer (median: −0.131), MMR gene mutation carriers with no diagnosed cancer (median: −0.079) and cancer-free non-carriers (median: −0.091); and in cancer-free controls (median: −0.097). The boxes represent the interquartile range of distributions (25^th and 75^th percentiles); the horizontal lines within the boxes, the medians; and the vertical lines, the 5^th and 95^th percentiles.