An Oxford University Press Journal, Bioinformatics, Publishes Paper by AUA CSE Adjunct Lecturers Arsen Arakelyan and Lilit Nersisyan

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YEREVAN, Armenia – Bioinformatics, a top-ranked Oxford University Press journal, published a paper on January 13 by Arsen Arakelyan and Lilit Nersisyan, adjunct lecturers at the American University of Armenia (AUA) College of Science and Engineering (CSE). The paper, titled “Quantitative Trait Association Study for Mean Telomere Length in the South Asian Genomes,” is a study of mean telomere length (MTL) which is associated with cancers and age-related diseases.

Nersisyan’s and Arakelyan’s abstract of their paper can be found at the following link: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/01/22/bioinformatics.btw027

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