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A modified r-banding technique

Maria Cecilia Menks Ribeiro; Maria Isabel Melaragno

Disciplina de Genética, Departamento de Morfologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Caixa Postal 20.363, 04034 São Paulo, SP, Brasil Send correspondence to M.I.M.

ABSTRACT

The present report describes a new modification of an R-banding technique using 5-BrdU incorporation and Hoechst 33258 and Giemsa staining (RBG), which has produced good banding quality and has proved to be highly reproducible.

Keywords: r-banding; technique.

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