Medical Hypotheses
Volume 53, Issue 1 , Pages 17-18, July 1999

Topologic preconditions for ring chromatids

  • G.T. Matioli

      Affiliations

    • USC Medical School, 2011 Zonaal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
    • ,
  • E. Krol

      Affiliations

    • Medical University, Debinki, Gdansk, Poland

Received 23 September 1997; accepted 15 October 1997.

Abstract 

The paper discusses a mechanism apt to convert the topology of a straight chromatid into one that could lead to the formation of a O-ring. It is predicted that such conversions might occur only in exceptional circumstances, due to a combination of poorly correlated events.

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PII: S0306-9877(97)90699-X

doi:10.1054/mehy.1997.0699

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 53, Issue 1 , Pages 17-18, July 1999

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