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We used a cloned cDNA probe for human growth hormone and Southern blotting techniques to analyze DNA from a series of rodentxhuman somatic cell hybrids for the presence of growth hormone-related sequences. Our results provide evidence for the assignment of the genes for growth hormone and chorionic somatomammotropin as well as a growth hormone-like gene to human chromosome 17. Analysis of mousexhuman hybrid cells containing only part of the long arm of chromosome 17 enabled us to localize these genes to region 17q21→17qter.
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George, D.L., Phillips, J.A., Francke, U. et al. The genes for growth hormone and chorionic somatomammotropin are on the long arm of human chromosome 17 in region q21→qter. Hum Genet 57, 138–141 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282009
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282009