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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2022 Feb 8;54(6):931–943. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002868

Table 1.

mTert and hTERT Genomic Sequence Length

Intron Intron Length (bp) Features of hTERT
mTert hTERT
2 5,477 10,688 Alu, VNTR2.1, 2.2
3 1,072 2,090 Alu
6 1,791 6,360 Alu, VNTR6.1, 6.2, DR6
8 1,904 2,485 Alu, DR8
11 1,743 3,803 Alu
12 469 1,814 VNTR12
13 1,108 3,186 Alu
All Exons 4,313 4,039 Highly Conserved
All Introns 18,615 37,863 Evolutionarily Divergent

Abbreviations: DR: Direct Repeat; VNTR: Variable Number Tandem Repeat