相关结果以“T cell immune deficiency rather than chromosome instability predisposes patients with short telomere syndromes to squamous cancers”为题于4月10日发表于Cancer Cell。这一结果不仅将为短端粒综合征患者的治疗和癌症筛查提供指导,还可能将推翻长期以来的科学教条,并解决以往研究中关于短端粒如何以及是否影响癌症风险的矛盾结论。
[1]Kristen E. Schratz, Diane A. Flasch, Christine C. Atik, et al, T cell immune deficiency rather than chromosome instability predisposes patients with short telomere syndromes to squamous cancers, Cancer Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2023.03.005.