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

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Figure 5.
Figure 5.

Satellite associations of the short arms of human acrocentric chromosomes. (Top) Various types of satellite association from different cells. (Middle) Human nucleolar organizer chromosomes: satellite associations. (Bottom) Localization of rDNA (green) and centromeres in cells that divided in the presence of topoisomerase inhibitor ICRF-193, showing inter-chromosomal rDNA linkage. Figures reproduced with permission from Ferguson-Smith et al. (1961), Denton et al. (1976), and Potapova et al. (2019), respectively.

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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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