Abstract

Telomere dysfunction has previously been linked to metabolic disorders. In this issue of Cell Reports, Martínez etal. (2013) and Yeung etal. (2013) now extend this link, demonstrating that deletion of the telomere binding protein RAP1 leads to obesity and insulin resistance.

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