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Human nucleolar organizer chromosomes: satellite associations

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The D and G group chromosomes from cultured human lymphocytes exhibit single and multiple satellite associations when stained with silver. Unlike earlier methods this simple and highly repeatable procedure shows physical attachments between satellited regions of various acrocentric autosomes. After studying 1,000 satellite associations from 118 normal individuals, it was found that both single and multiple associations occur with frequencies that correlate with random expectancies.

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  1. Department of Biology, Samford University Birmingham, 35209, Alabama, USA

    T. E. Denton, W. M. Howell & J. V. Barrett

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Denton, T.E., Howell, W.M. & Barrett, J.V. Human nucleolar organizer chromosomes: satellite associations. Chromosoma 55, 81–84 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288330

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