Table 3.

Average Telomere Length Crossing Point (TC) and Absolute Telomere Length (aTL) of 24 Silk Weavers (Exposed Subjects) and 24 Control Subjects

No.	Age	Average TCa		Average aTL (kb/diploid genome)a
		Exposed	Control	Exposed	Control
1	65	20.02	18.4	4.59	38.1
2	64	18.44	19.01	8.98	26.53
3	69	19.52	19.64	5.66	20.3
4	63	16.93	19.57	17.13	21.07
5	50	18.73	18.65	7.96	31.07
6	63	19.74	17.57	5.16	49.17
7	76	20.88	21.96	3.18	7.53
8	50	18.8	17.78	7.72	45.13
9	70	19.04	18.89	6.95	27.9
10	70	20.84	18.58	3.23	31.9
11	49	18.96	17.5	15.7	48.23
12	49	18.68	17.85	17.73	41.57
13	59	20.25	18.86	9.07	26.97
14	50	20.04	18.99	9.91	25.5
15	44	19.69	18.88	11.5	26.77
16	52	21.58	19.2	5.14	23.4
17	61	20.44	16.91	8.37	62.17
18	46	20.31	18.97	8.84	25.8
19	66	18.87	19.89	16.37	17.43
20	56	20.41	17.81	8.51	42.43
21	60	17.68	18.11	36.63	30.43
22	68	15.62	16.38	87.1	63.67
23	60	17.1	17.73	46.87	35.9
24	58	17.2	18	44.87	31.93
Median	60	19.28	18.615	8.91	30.75
p-valueb		< 0.05		< 0.05

^aAn average from triplicated aTL measurements;

^bWilcoxon Signed Rank test.