Common fragile sites are conserved features of human and mouse chromosomes and relate to large active genes

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.

Example of mouse CFS mapping. The lesions appearing as chromatid gaps (black arrows), chromosome breaks/deletions (blue arrows), or translocations (red arrows) were mapped to their cytogenetic locations according to the SKY classification (left) and the DAPI banding pattern (right). The figure shows an especially heavily rearranged metaphase with all three kinds of lesions.

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  1. Genome Res. 16: 1222-1230

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