Dicentric chromosomes
2 papers1 finding
- Cells1
Associations
1Telomere length
upin human cells1
1 study
Telomere length
upin human cells1
Telomere length is associated with dicentric chromosomes in human cells (~1.5 kbp telomeric repeats).
“When transformed cells reached crisis, the length of the telomeric TTAGGG repeats was only approximately 1.5 kbp and many dicentric chromosomes were observed.”
Cellsat crisis in SV40- or Ad5-transformed human cells
The EMBO journal1 May 1992
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