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Human chromosomes : structure, behavior, and effects / Eeva Therman, Millard Susman.
| Author/creator | Therman, Eeva |
| Other author | Susman, Millard. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 3rd ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1993. |
| Description | xvii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Origins and directions of human cytogenetics -- Structure of the eukaryotic chromosome and the karyotype -- Mitotic cycle and chromosome reproduction -- Methods in human cytogenetics -- Molecular methods -- Longitudinal differentiation of eukaryotic chromosomes -- Significance ofchromosome bands -- Architecture and function of the eukaryotic chromosome -- Chromosome structural aberrations -- Causes of chromosome breakage -- Chromosome instability syndromes -- Sister chromatid exchanges and mitotic crossing-over -- Cell fusion, prematurely condensed chromosomes, and the origin of allocyclic chromosomes -- Chromosome arrangement in interphase and in differentiated nuclei -- Modifications of mitosis -- Chromosomal differentiation of cells -- Main features of meiosis -- Details of meiosis -- Meiotic abnormalities -- Human sex determination and the Y chromosome -- Human X chromosome -- Abnormal human sex chromosome constitutions -- Functional structure of the human X chromosome -- Numerically abnormal chromosome constitutions in humans -- Structurally abnormal human autosomes. |
| Contents | (cont) Reciprocal translocations -- Robertsonian translocations -- Double minutes and homogeneously stained regions -- Chromosomes and oncogenes -- Chromosomal development of cancer -- Mapping of human chromosomes. |
| General note | "Springer study edition"--P. [i]. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 92002335 |
| ISBN | 0387978712 (New York : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 3540978712 (Berlin : acid-free paper) |