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Human centromere repositioning "in progress".
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Apr 2004
Amor David J, Bentley Karen, Ryan Jacinta, Perry Jo, Wong Lee, Slater Howard, Choo K H Andy
Abstract excerpt
Centromere repositioning provides a potentially powerful evolutionary force for reproductive isolation and speciation, but the underlying mechanisms remain ill-defined. An attractive model is through the simultaneous inactivation of a normal centromere and the formation of a new centromere at a hitherto noncentromeric chromosomal location with minimal detrimental effect. We report a two-generation family in which...
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