Separate and variably shaped chromosome arm domains are disclosed by chromosome arm painting in human cell nuclei

Chromosome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-33

  Dietzel, Steffen ^a   Jauch, Anna ^a   Kienle, Dirk ^a   Qu, Guoquiong ^a   Holtgreve Grez, Heidi ^a   Eils, Roland ^a   Münkel, Christian ^c   Bittner, Michael ^d   Meltzer, Paul S ^d   Trent, Jeffrey M ^d   Cremer, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome arms; Chromosome structure; Chromosome territories; Confocal microscopy; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Nuclear organization; Random walk giant loop model

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTIC FLUID CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 3P; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER MICROSCOPY; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 15644364244     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009262223693     Document Type: Article

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