DNA Damage as a Driver for Growth Delay: Chromosome Instability Syndromes with Intrauterine Growth Retardation

Figure 5

Chromosomal instability induced by 40 ng/ml mitomycin C. (a) Lymphocytes from a healthy individual; (b) lymphocytes from a FA patient. Short arrows show chromosomal breaks; the long arrow shows a quadriradial figure. Note the exacerbated chromosome instability found in the FA patient.

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