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Confirmation of the assignment of the chimpanzee thymidine kinase and galactokinase genes to chromosome 19

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Chimpanzee-mouse hybrid cells were isolated by fusing chimpanzee HGPRT- cells and mouse TK- cells. Both biochemical and cytologic studies of these hybrid cells and BUDR resistant cells isolated from them showed that the TK and GaK genes are located on the chimpanzee chromosome 19.

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  1. Kanji Ishizaki

    Present address: Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Yoshida-konvecho, Sakyoku, 606, Kyoto, Japan

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Kanji Ishizaki & Keiichi Omoto

  2. Division of Radiology, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

    Toyozo Sekiguchi

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Ishizaki, K., Omoto, K. & Sekiguchi, T. Confirmation of the assignment of the chimpanzee thymidine kinase and galactokinase genes to chromosome 19. Hum Genet 37, 231–234 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00393586

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