Structural aberrations of metaphase derivative chromosomes from reciprocal translocations as revealed by scanning electron microscopy

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 76-79

  Uehara, S ^a   Sasaki, H ^a   Takabayashi, T ^a   Yajima, A ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME G BAND; FEMALE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PREGNANCY; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029792014     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000134386     Document Type: Article

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