Well before Clinton's announcement of completion of a "draft" human
genome, linkers between chromosomes, of about the same physical
length (though not width), which we now call "chromolinkers", were
discovered:
Maniotis, A. J.; Bojanowski, K., and Ingber, D. E. Mechanical
continuity and reversible chromosome disassembly within intact
genomes removed from living cells. J. Cell Biochem. 1997;
65(1):114-130.
Maybe C. elegans has chromolinkers too? So we're far from done with
that chapter of the story.
Yours, -Dick Gordon
>Subject: Re:The Common Thread/ Science, Politics, Ethics, and the Human
>Date: 22 Apr 2003 16:01:33 +0100
>Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre
>Sender: owner-celegans at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>X-DCC-UofM-Metrics: electra 1033; IP=ok Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3
>>Hi everyone;
>>>>Below is the critique of J. Sulston's book "The Common Thread" by
>>>Ed Regis that appeared in the New York Times Book Review a couple
>>>of weeks ago. Following that is Bob Herman's response to this
>>>critique that came out this week. I thought it would interest the
>>>worm scientists.
>>Sincerely,
Zeynep Altun
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