Fragile site and interstitial telomere repeat sequences at the fusion point of a de novo (Y;13) translocation

Human Genetics

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 323-327

  Boutouil, Mohamed ^a,b   Fetni, Raouf ^a   Qu, Jinhi ^b   Dallaire, Louis ^b   Richer, Claude Lise ^a,b   Lemieux, Nicole ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION Y; CYTOGENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ADOLESCENT; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029775112     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050216     Document Type: Article

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