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What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Probably cancer, but if not they would age slower and look younger longer assuming they didn’t tan their skin to a crisp or something

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  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Noticably? I imagine their skin imperfections would be twice as large… or maybe √2 as large?

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They would get cancer much sooner in life.

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  • mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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    • porksnort@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The great flood that left no evidence behind and all large animals were rescued by a guy who built a boat? The one that also left behind no genetic evidence of such a catastrophic population bottleneck? That great flood?

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      • mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s the flood that wiped out humanity because we did not do as we were instructed to do. That was the first great reset in our history.

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