You will be presented with a citation segment from the section of a research paper. Classify the intent behind this citation by choosing from one of the following categories:

- Method: Cites the paper for its methodology or procedure.
- Background: Cites the paper to provide background information.
- Result: Cites the paper for its findings or results.

Your answer should be a single word from the following list of options: ["Method", "Background", "Result"]. Do not include any other text in your response.

Citation sentence:

The absence of telomerase function has been shown to lead to a senescence-associated increase in genome instability in both haploid and diploid strains (Chen and Kolodner, 1999; Hackett et al., 2001; DuBois et al., 2002; Hackett and Greider, 2003; Mieczkowski et al., 2003; Meyer and Bailis, 2007).
Background