In most cases with a constitutional dicentric chromosome, one of the two centromeres on each dicentric chromosome is inactivated. This is associated with the loss of Cd-positive structure although both centromeres remain C positive.In this paper, a case of dicentric chromosome is described in which the inactivation of a centromere is, to our surprise, associated with the loss of C-positive heterochromatin.
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