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Cultured human peripheral blood lymphocytes were labelled with 3H-thymidine in the early or late S phase prior to mitosis. Quinacrine fluorescence patterns in metaphase chromosomes were then recorded photographically and the slides reprocessed for autoradiography so that the same metaphase cells were examined with the two techniques. The intensity and distribution of 3H-thymidine labelling was compared with the intensity and distribution of Q fluorescence with particular reference to chromosomes 1, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22. It was found that chromosome regions showing bright fluorescence were also late replicating and that, in general, patterns of late replications reflected the patterns of fluorescence. Exceptions to this generalisation included the late labelling X chromosome in cells of female origin and areas near the centromeres on chromosomes 1, 9, 16 and 22. These centromeric regions show a dull fluorescence but, with exception of chromosome 9, are strongly Giemsa-positive in the ASG staining technique. On the basis of staining reaction, late replicating heterochromatic regions fall into five categories, the relationships and functional significance of these categories is discussed.
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Ganner, E., Evans, H.J. The relationship between patterns of DNA replication and of Quinacrine fluorescence in the human chromosome complement. Chromosoma 35, 326–341 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00326282
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