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Pressure palsy, deletion c'some 17, cosmid

Human chromosomes from a patient with Hereditary
Liability to Pressure Palsy (a lesion of a spinal
root or peripheral nerve resulting from
compression). There is a deletion in chromosome 17
(17p11.2), which has been highlighted using a
fluorescent cosmid probe (red) from the PMP gene.
The chromosome 11 centromeres are green. The
chromosomes have been highlighted with fluorescent
probes that bind to specific sequences of DNA.
Image by Dr John Crolla.

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