Duplications of proximal 16q flanked by heterochromatin are not euchromatic variants and show no evidence of heterochromatic position effect

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 351-358

  Barber, J C K ^a,b   Zhang, S ^b   Friend, N ^c   Collins, A L ^d   Maloney, V K ^a   Hastings, R ^c   Farren, B ^e   Barnicoat, A ^e   Polityko, A D ^f   Rumyantseva, N V ^f   Starke, H ^g   Ye, S ^b  

^a SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NE Thames Regional Cytogenetics Laboratory ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d PRINCESS ANNE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Republican Medical Center 'Mother and Child'   (Belarus)

^g FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE A;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CENTROMERE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 16Q; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOGENETICS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; ZYGOTE;

ADOLESCENT; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PEDIGREE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33748452843     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094225     Document Type: Article

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