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heterochromatin - Regions of chromosomes that remain contracted during interphase and therefore stain more intensely in cytological preparations. These regions have a high content of repetitive DNA, and a low content of genes; thus they are for the most part genetically inactive. Opposite: euchromatin. [FAO]
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The disappearing Barr body in breast and ovarian cancers - Jul 30, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),Mitotic segregation errors commonly explain the loss of the inactive X chromosome (Xi), but compromise of Xi heterochromatin in some cancers may signal
New insight into cell division and chromosones - Jul 23, 2007
News-Medical.net,The investigators also showed the order in which certain critical events occur in setting up and maintaining this heterochromatin.
Where Broken DNA Is Repaired - Aug 3, 2007
Science Daily (press release)The high-density regions likely are heterochromatin, the parts of the chromosomes where genes are (for the most part) silenced. The low-density regions
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