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  • Title: Use of multicolour chromosome painting to identify chromosomal rearrangements in human lymphocytes exposed to bleomycin: a comparison with conventional cytogenetic analysis of Giemsa-stained chromosomes.
    Author: Ellard S, Parry EM, Parry JM.
    Journal: Environ Mol Mutagen; 1995; 26(1):44-54. PubMed ID: 7543844.
    Abstract:
    Exchange aberrations induced by bleomycin were identified by multicolour fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) with probes for chromosomes 1, 2, and 3. The frequency and distribution of aberration types were compared to conventional metaphase analysis of Giemsa-stained chromosomes from the same human lymphocyte cultures. The total percentage of exchanges detectable by painting three pairs of chromosomes with separate colours was calculated as 40%. Giemsa staining revealed predominantly asymmetric chromosome exchanges, which are expected to comprise 50% of the total induced exchanges. Genomic exchange frequencies were, therefore, determined by multiplying the observed frequencies from FISH analysis by 2.5 and the number of asymmetric exchanges identified in Giemsa-stained slides by 2.0. By these calculations, the genomic exchange frequency calculated from chromosome painting exceeded that estimated by Giemsa-staining. This difference was due to the identification by chromosome painting of a unique class of cells in which chromosomes had undergone complex exchanges (nonreciprocal exchanges involving multiple mutual sites). The percentage of cells exhibiting exchanges was similar for both methods.
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