Cytogenetics of the Nucleolus Organizer Regions (NORs) of Human Chromosomes: The Identification, Individual Variation, and Chromosome Distribution of Four Morphological Functional Variants of NORs

Genetika

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1298-1306

  Lyapunova, N A ^a   Kravets Mandron, I A ^a   Tsvetkova, T G ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME NOR; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INDIVIDUALITY; KARYOTYPING; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; BLOOD CELLS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INDIVIDUALITY; KARYOTYPING; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032152954     PISSN: 00166758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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