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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Alicia Alonso
PROVIDER: E-TABM-168 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cardone Maria Francesca MF Alonso Alicia A Pazienza Michele M Ventura Mario M Montemurro Gabriella G Carbone Lucia L de Jong Pieter J PJ Stanyon Roscoe R D'Addabbo Pietro P Archidiacono Nicoletta N She Xinwei X Eichler Evan E EE Warburton Peter E PE Rocchi Mariano M
Genome biology 20061013 10
<h4>Background</h4>Evolutionary centromere repositioning and human analphoid neocentromeres occurring in clinical cases are, very likely, two stages of the same phenomenon whose properties still remain substantially obscure. Chromosome 13 is the chromosome with the highest number of neocentromeres. We reconstructed the mammalian evolutionary history of this chromosome and characterized two human neocentromeres at 13q21, in search of information that could improve our understanding of the relatio ...[more]