Engineering Chromosomes (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Engineering Chromosomes

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The Mills group altered normal cells so that they had one extra- (left) or one fewer- (right) copies of a chromosome segment representing human 1p36 than normal cells; this caused added tumor suppression and increased cancer, respectively.

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