Short arms of human acrocentric chromosomes and the completion of the human genome sequence

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.

Schematic representation of an acrocentric chromosome and nomenclature of the short arm regions. The satellite stalk contains the rDNA.

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  1. Published in Advance March 31, 2022, doi: 10.1101/gr.275350.121 Genome Res. 32: 599-607

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