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Laboratory Methods for the Detection of Chromosomal Structural Aberrations in Human and Mouse Sperm by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

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Environmental Genomics

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Acknowledgments

We thank Eddie Sloter, Thomas Schmid, Xiu Lowe, Francesca Pearson, and other past and present laboratory members who helped in the development and validation of the ACM and CT8 assays. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DOE by the University of California, LLNL under contract W-7405-ENG-48 with funding support from NIEHS IAG Y01-ES-8016-5 and from Superfund P42ES04705 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

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  1. Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

    Francesco Marchetti & Andrew J. Wyrobek

  2. School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

    Debby Cabreros

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  1. Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics (CAREG),Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    C. Cristofre Martin

  2. Department of Biochemistry, St. George’s University Medical School, St. George’s, Grenada, West Indies

    C. Cristofre Martin

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Marchetti, F., Cabreros, D., Wyrobek, A.J. (2008). Laboratory Methods for the Detection of Chromosomal Structural Aberrations in Human and Mouse Sperm by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization. In: Martin, C.C., Martin, C.C. (eds) Environmental Genomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 410. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-548-0_14

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