An interstitial nucleolus organizer region in the long arm of human chromosome 7: Cytogenetic characterization and familial segregation

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 80, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 104-112

  Guttenbach, M ^a   Nassar, N ^a   Feichtinger, W ^a   Steinlein, C ^a   Nanda, I ^a   Wanner, G ^b   Kerem, B ^c   Schmid, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME NOR; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CYTOGENETICS; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031824551     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000014964     Document Type: Article

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