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Silver-Stained cells from 49 parents with a history of several abortions were compared with cells from 35 parents with normal liveborn children. The modal and mean number of silver-stained NORs (Ag-NORs) observed on D- or G-group chromosomes was similar in both groups and between males and females. Ag-NORs were randomly distributed on all five acrocentric pairs. The distribution and size of Ag-NORs within an individual was not random and was fairly consistent from cell to cell.
The mean number of associations per cell was similar in both males and females of the abortion group and was less than the number of associations in controls. The probability of D- or G-group chromosomes being associated was near the expected probability of 0.6 for D-association and 0.4 for G-association. The frequency of association of any chromosome combination did not differ statistically from the expected values, though the number of associations, 15/22, was higher than expected.
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Ray, M., Pearson, J. Nucleolar organizing regions of human chromosomes. Hum Genet 48, 201–210 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00286905
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