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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Tenn Acad Sci. 1998 Jul-Oct;73(3-4):87–99.

Table 3.

Chromosome fragile site data from cells grown in Medium 199 or RPMI 1640 with bromodeoxyuridine from mentally retarded males.

Chromosome Number Medium 1991
RPMI 1640 with BrdU1
Fragile Sites2 Expression of Fragile Sites (%) Fragile Sites3 Expression of Fragile Sites (%) χ2
  1 27   8.1 25   4.1     6.02a
  2 21   6.3 40   6.6   0.00
  3 90 27.1 41   6.7   73.32c
  4 10   3.0 56   9.2   11.54c
  5 15   4.5 48   7.9   3.31
  6 13   3.9 29   4.8   0.18
  7 22   6.6 32   5.2   0.54
  8   9   2.7 17   2.8   0.02
  9 11   3.3 55   9.0     9.80b
10 14   4.2 55   9.0     6.54a
11 10   3.0 20   3.3   0.00
12   8   2.4 41   6.7     7.20b
13   6   1.8 17   2.8   0.49
14   7   2.1 27   4.4   2.66
15   3   0.9   4   0.7   0.00
16 48 14.5 64 10.5   2.92
17   2   0.6   8   1.3   0.46
18   6   1.8   7   1.2   0.30
19   0   0.0   3   0.5   0.45
20   1   0.3   0   0.0   0.10
21   0   0.0   0   0.0 —
22   1   0.3   1   0.2   0.09
X   8   2.4 15   2.4   0.03
Y   0   0.0   7   1.2   2.43
1

6,009 cells grown in Medium 199 were analyzed from 117 patients; 5,846 cells grown in RPMI with bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) were analyzed from 121 patients, χ2 is Chi-square.

2

Total fragile sites = 332.

3

Total fragile sites = 612.

a

P < 0.05.

b

P < 0.01.

c

P < 0.001, two-tailed test.