Human Chromosome Methodology

Content: Contributors to This Volume , Page ii Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv List of Contributors , Page v Preface , Page vii , JORGE J. YUNIS Introduction , Pages xiii-xiv , T.C. HSU Sex Chromatin Techniques , Pages 1-20 , MURRAY L. BARR Human Peripheral Blood Leucocyte Cultures , Pages 21-49 , WILLIAM J. MELLMAN Direct Chromosome Preparations of Bone Marrow Cells , Pages 51-56 , J.H. TJIO, J. WHANG The Skin Culture Technique , Pages 57-73 , D.G. HARNDEN, SHEILA BRUNTON Direct Handling of Germ Cells , Pages 75-90 , SUSUMU OHNO Autoradiography of Human Chromosomes , Pages 91-110 , WERNER SCHMID, JOHN D. CARNES Bright Field, Phase Contrast, and Fluorescence Microscopy , Pages 111-128 , WALTER J. RUNGE Applied Photography in Chromosome Studies , Pages 129-153 , LEROY P. CHRISTENSON Identification of Chromosomes , Pages 155-186 , KLAUS PATAU Human Chromosomes in Disease , Pages 187-242 , JORGE J. YUNIS Author Index , Pages 243-251 Subject Index , Pages 252-258 Human Chromosome Methodology fills the need for an authoritative and up-to-date treatise which would serve as a text and reference for advances in human cytogenetics. The book includes readily comprehensible chapters that cover each phase of laboratory investigation from the preparation of materials for sex chromatin and chromosome techniques for bone marrow, blood, skin, and gonadal specimens to the subject of autoradiography and chromosome identification. Included also are guides to microscopy and photomicrography as well as an up-to-date treatment of chromosomes in disease. It is hoped tha ..