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. 1978 Mar;30(2):144–152.

Lateral asymmetry in human constitutive heterochromatin: frequency and inheritance.

R R Angell, P A Jacobs
PMCID: PMC1685568  PMID: 566032

Abstract

The relative frequencies and types of lateral asymmetry found in chromosomes 1, 9, 15, 16, and the Y were determined. The pattern of asymmetry is simple in chromosomes 15, 16, and the Y but compound in 1 and possibly also 9. The pattern of compound lateral asymmetry is a stable heteromorphism inherited in a simple Mendelian way and is an efficient morphological discriminator between the members of the no. 1 chromosome pair.

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