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Analysis of alphoid DNA variation and kinetochore size in human chromosome 21: evidence against pathological significance of alphoid satellite DNA diminutions.
TSitologiia i genetika - 1 Jan 2000
Marzais B, Vorsanova S G, Roizes G, Yurov Y B
Abstract excerpt
Centromeric alpha satellite DNA sequences are linked to the kinetochore CENP-B proteins and therefore may be involved in the centromeric function. The high heterogeneity of size of the alphoid blocks raises the question of whether small amount of alphoid DNA or "deletion" of this block may have a pathological significance in the human centromere. In the present study, we analysed the correlation between size...
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