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E H McConkey1, R Menon, G Williams
1Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309, USA. mcconkey@beagle.Colorado.edu
Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
The human beta-casein gene (CSN2) has been mapped by fluorescence in situ hybridization to human chromosome 4q13 --> q21 and to the homologous chimpanzee chromosome at 3p13 --> p12. This confirms the presence of a pericentric inversion that distinguishes the two species, as first observed by chromosomal banding studies.
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