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Robertsonian Translocations

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Robertsonian translocations refer to the recombination of whole chromosome arms. Such translocations take place most often between acrocentric or telocentric chromosomes. They have played an important role in the evolution of both plants and animals, as demonstrated by organisms within a species (or in closely related species) that have different chromosome numbers but the same number of chromosome arms. In the humans, Robertsonian translocations are the most common structurally abnormal chromosomes. Surprisingly, they seem to be much rarer in some other animal species, such as mice or cattle (cf. Ford, 1970).

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Therman, E. (1986). Robertsonian Translocations. In: Human Chromosomes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0269-8_24

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