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Observations on Chromocentres in Cultured Mouse Cells

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Counting and sizing of the chromocentres in mouse fibroblast-like cells is feasible. It has shown that, in spite of the great variations of chromocentres in a population of such cells, there are certain regularities.

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ABERCROMBIE, M., STEPHENSON, E. Observations on Chromocentres in Cultured Mouse Cells. Nature 222, 1250–1253 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221250a0

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