Correlation of T/S ratio and the mean terminal restriction fragment (TRF) length.

<p>(A) Correlation of T/S ratio assessed by real-time PCR-based telomere assay and the mean TRF length determined by southern blotting in ten DNA samples. The linear regression line that best fit the data (p = 0.002) is shown. (B) The mean terminal restriction fragment (TRF) length was assessed by southern blotting. Size of molecular weight markers (Kb) is shown at the left side. S₁–S₉: nine randomly-selected DNA samples, Ref: the reference DNA used in real-time PCR-based telomere assay.