"Centromere" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The clear constricted portion of the chromosome at which the chromatids are joined and by which the chromosome is attached to the spindle during cell division.
| Descriptor ID |
D002503
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.430.106.279.345.190.160.165 G05.360.160.165
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Centromere" by people in Profiles.
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Two Pif1 Family DNA Helicases Cooperate in Centromere Replication and Segregation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2019 01; 211(1):105-119.
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Chromosomal inversion differences correlate with range overlap in passerine birds. Nat Ecol Evol. 2017 Oct; 1(10):1526-1534.
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Refined Pichia pastoris reference genome sequence. J Biotechnol. 2016 Oct 10; 235:121-31.
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Population-based 3D genome structure analysis reveals driving forces in spatial genome organization. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Mar 22; 113(12):E1663-72.
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Regional centromeres in the yeast Candida lusitaniae lack pericentromeric heterochromatin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Sep 29; 112(39):12139-44.
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Comparative 3D genome structure analysis of the fission and the budding yeast. PLoS One. 2015; 10(3):e0119672.
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Comparative analysis of metazoan chromatin organization. Nature. 2014 Aug 28; 512(7515):449-52.
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Mutations in CENPE define a novel kinetochore-centromeric mechanism for microcephalic primordial dwarfism. Hum Genet. 2014 Aug; 133(8):1023-39.
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Centromere reference models for human chromosomes X and Y satellite arrays. Genome Res. 2014 Apr; 24(4):697-707.
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Esperanto for histones: CENP-A, not CenH3, is the centromeric histone H3 variant. Chromosome Res. 2013 Apr; 21(2):101-6.