Medical Hypotheses
Volume 52, Issue 6 , Pages 521-523, June 1999

On ring chromatids

USC Medical School, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Received 3 September 1997; accepted 15 October 1997.

Abstract 

The paper studies mammalian chromatids conformed as donut-like rings. Albeit enacting many topologic and dynamic aspects of straight chromatids (e.g. replication, eversion, antipodal segregation at anaphase, etc.), rings differ in certain properties regarding in particular disposal of soliton-like, kinked frustrations of their chirality during recurrent sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs).

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PII: S0306-9877(97)90668-X

doi:10.1054/mehy.1997.0668

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 52, Issue 6 , Pages 521-523, June 1999

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