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Chromosome errors at mitotic anaphase

J H Ford et al. Genome. 1992 Aug.

Abstract

Errors in mitotic divisions were assayed using various satellite DNAs as probes, hybridized in situ, to show that they included nondisjunction, chromosome and chromatid lagging, chromatid malsegregation, and monopolar segregations. The total rates of error were 1.7, 1.1, and 0.6% for chromosomes X, 17, and 18, respectively. Lagging was the most common error for all chromosomes and chromatid malsegregation, a source of 3:1 segregations occurred at about the same frequency as nondisjunction. In some cells, lagging of both X chromatids occurred and there were several cells where both X chromosomes showed errors in segregation. The disjunction of chromosomes was shown to be independent of their segregation and is speculated to involve a different mechanism.

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