Formation of de novo centromeres and construction of first-generation human artificial microchromosomes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 345-355

  Harrington, John J ^a,b   Van Bokkelen, Gil ^a,b   Mays, Robert W ^a,b   Gustashaw, Karen ^a   Willard, Huntington F ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATHERSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFECTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TELOMERE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA, SATELLITE; FIBROSARCOMA; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; TELOMERE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030910465     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0497-345     Document Type: Article

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