Evidence for an ancestral alphoid domain on the long arm of human chromosome 2
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Human Genetics
- Vol. 89 (2) , 247-249
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00217134
Abstract
In situ hybridization, under low stringency conditions with two alphoid DNA probes (pYα1 and p82H) labeled with digoxigenin-dUTP, decorated all the centromeres of the human karyotype. However, signals were also detected on the long arm of chromosome 2 at approximately q21.3–q22.1. Since it is supposed that human chromosome 2 originated by the telomeric fusion of two ancestral primate chromosomes, these findings indicate that not only the telomeric sequences, but also the ancestral centromere (or at least its alphoid sequences), have been conserved.Keywords
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