a medium-sized chromosome with one long and one short arm. The position of the centromere, which separates the p and q arms, is shown by the hatched area. This particular idiogram depicts the ...

A joint research group team led by Sayuri Tsukahara and Tetsuji Kakutani of the University of Tokyo has clarified a mechanism ...

Translocations are thus manifested as a change in the length or the banding pattern of a chromosome arm. Over time, cytogeneticists have discovered hundreds, if not thousands, of different human ...

For instance, the telomeres on chromosome 1's short arm (1p) differed by more than six kilobases between its two parts, 1pM and 1pP — the maternal (M) and paternal (P) chromosomes, respectively.