Variegated translocation mosaicism in human skin fibroblast cultures

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1975, Pages 282-298

  Hoehn, H ^a   Bryant, E M ^a   Au, K ^a   Norwood, T H ^a   Boman, H ^a   Martin, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME MOSAICISM; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLONE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; KARYOTYPE; MOSAICISM; WERNER SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; CLONE CELLS; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSAICISM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; SKIN; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0016678691     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000130526     Document Type: Article

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