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neocentromere: a standalone construct

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Cytogenetics

a functional centromere formed at a new chromosome site lacking normal centromeric satellite DNA, rescuing a chromosome fragment.

In cytogenetics, neocentromere refers to a functional centromere formed at a new chromosome site lacking normal centromeric satellite DNA, rescuing a chromosome fragment. This meaning comes from Sart (1997) in Nature Genetics.[1]

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References

Sart, D. d., Cancilla, M. R., Earle, E., Mao, J., Saffery, R., Tainton, K. M., Kalitsis, P., Martyn, J., Barry, A. E., & Choo, K. H. A. (1997). A functional neo-centromere formed through activation of a latent human centromere and consisting of non-alpha-satellite DNA. Nature Genetics, 16(2), 144-153. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0697-144

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