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====Karyotyping====
====Karyotyping====
What?
*Metaphase nuclei.
*Metaphase nuclei.
How?
*Chromosomes are identified by:
*Chromosomes are identified by:
**Size (chromosome 1 = largest, chromosome 22 = smallest).
**Size (chromosome 1 = largest, chromosome 22 = smallest).
**Position of centromere.
**Position of centromere.
**Banding pattern - use special stains:
**Banding pattern - using (special) stains:
***Several different techniques (stains) are used:<ref>URL: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC355922/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC355922/]. Accessed on: 10 May 2011.</ref>
***Several different techniques (stains) are used:<ref>URL: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC355922/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC355922/]. Accessed on: 10 May 2011.</ref>
****Examples: C-banding (C=constitutive heterchromatin), G-banding (G=Giemsa), Q-banding (Q=Quinacrine), R-banding (R=reverse).
****Examples: Q-banding (Q=Quinacrine), C-banding (C=constitutive heterchromatin), G-banding (G=Giemsa), R-banding (R=reverse).
*****Q-banding is the standard at UHN.


Image:
Image:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NHGRI_human_male_karyotype.png Karyotype (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NHGRI_human_male_karyotype.png Karyotype (WC)].
Notes:
*Quinacrine dye - AT-rich regions brighter than GC-rich regions.


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