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Spontaneous induction of an homologous Robertsonian translocation, Rb(11.11) in a murine embryonic stem cell line

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

John Anthony Crolla ,
David Brown  and
David G. Whittingham
John Anthony Crolla
Affiliation:
MRC Experimental Embryology and Teratology Unit, St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London, SW17 0RE, UK
David Brown*
Affiliation:
MRC Experimental Embryology and Teratology Unit, St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London, SW17 0RE, UK
David G. Whittingham
Affiliation:
MRC Experimental Embryology and Teratology Unit, St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London, SW17 0RE, UK
*
† Author for correspondence.
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Karyotype analysis of a series of established mouse embryonic stem cell (MESC) lines showed that the majority were aneuploid by the 7th and 9th passage and that all lines contained a single Robertsonian (Rb) translocation chromosome with a symmetrical, homologous, arm composition Rb(11.11). Although the chromosomal imbalance makes these MESC lines unsuitable for genetic manipulation in vitro and hence for subsequent production of transgenic animals, the spontaneous occurrence and stable retention of the homologous Rb(11.11) as the only metacentric chromosome in an otherwise all acrocentric karyotype, provides potentially useful cell lines for gene assignment and recombinant DNA studies.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 107 - 110
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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