Maternal Telomere Length Is Shorter in Intrauterine Growth Restriction Versus Uncomplicated Pregnancies, But Not in the Offspring or in IVF-Conceived Newborns

(Abstracted from Reprod Biomed Online 2019;38(4):606–612) Telomeres are protective nucleoprotein structures found at the end of chromosomes that progressively shorten with each round of DNA replication during cell division. Telomere shortening is associated with physiological aging, and short telomeres have been found to be an early indicator of cardiovascular...