Evolutionary descent of a human chromosome 6 neocentromere: A jump back to 17 million years ago

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 778-784

  Capozzi, Oronzo ^a   Purgato, Stefania ^b   D'Addabbo, Pietro ^a   Archidiacono, Nicoletta ^a   Battaglia, Paola ^c   Baroncini, Anna ^c   Capucci, Antonella ^c   Stanyon, Roscoe ^d   Della Valle, Giuliano ^b   Rocchi, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Azienda USL di Bologna   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE PROTEIN C; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FETUS; GENE ORDER; HUMAN; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOSOMY; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; PEDIGREE;

MYA; PRIMATES;

EID: 66049126341     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.085688.108     Document Type: Article

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