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Chromosomics: Detection of Numerical and Structural Alterations in All 24 Human Chromosomes Simultaneously Using a Novel OctoChrome FISH Assay
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Chromosomics: Detection of Numerical and Structural Alterations in All 24 Human Chromosomes Simultaneously Using a Novel OctoChrome FISH Assay

Published on: February 6, 2012

Variation in human acrocentric chromosomes with acridine orange reverse banding

R S Verma, H A Lubs

    Humangenetik
    |September 20, 1975
    PubMed

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