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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Methods of Studying Human Chromosomes and Nomenclature.- 3. Normal Population Studies.- 4. Heteromorphisms in Clinical Populations.- 5. Technical Variables and the Use of Heteromorphisms in the Study of Human Chromosomes. A: Paternity Testing. B: Origin of Chromosome Abnormalities.- 6. Euchromatic Variants.- 7. FISH Technologies.- 8. Molecular Dissection of Heteromorphic Regions.- 9. Evolution of Human Alpha Satellite Sequences Comprising Variant Centromeric Chromosome Regions.- II: Plates.

Reviews

The reviewers feel this volume will be an extremely valuable resource for anyone working in a clinical cytogenetics laboratory. The editors are to be congratulated for doing a fine job in compiling this volume.
Franks S. Grass, Parke Cytogenetics Laboratory and Hon Fong L. Mark, Brown University Medical School.
(The Journal of the Association of Genetic Technologists 30 (3), 2004)