Human cytogenetics was launched 46 years ago with the discovery that human somatic cells contain 46 chromosomes. In the ensuing years, technological advances that have combined innovations in ...
(1) The effects of breakage in four positions upon a centromere such as that described by Lima de Faria are considered. Three kinds of telocentric chromosomes may be expected to arise and one of them ...
In the 1980s, scientists knew little about the X and Y chromosomes. What they did understand was that every cell in the body contains 23 pairs of chromosomes. Each of these pairs is similar ...