For humans, about 15 kbp telomere can be reduced to 50% in about 107 years at the rate of about 70 bp per year. That number goes well with the max life spans we

For humans, about 15 kbp telomere can be reduced to 50% in about 107 years at the rate of about 70 bp per year. That number goes well with the max life spans we observe in humans.