Absence of heteromorphism of chromosome #2 homologues in patients with hereditary adenomatosis of the colon and rectum.

ABSTRACT

Measurement analysis of lymphocyte prometaphase chromosomes from three patients with hereditary adenomatosis of the colon and rectum could not confirm the heteromorphism of chromosome #2 homologues, which was suggested by Gardner et al. Instead, the analysis showed to what extent individual homologous pairs are "heteromorphic" quantitatively.