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THE usefulness of cell fusion in the genetic analysis of somatic cells stems largely from two observations. First, Harris and Watkins1 demonstrated that not only like cells, as shown by Okada2, but also cells of widely different types, for example, man and mouse, could be fused together by inactivated Sendai virus. Second, Weiss and Green3 found that in man-mouse hybrid cells most of the human chromosomes were rapidly eliminated. While most of the known human linkage relation-ships have been established by classical pedigree analysis4, the “segregation” of chromosomes that occurs in man-mouse hybrid cells has enabled two further linkage assignments to be made: assignment of the gene controlling thymidine kinase production to an E group chromosome5,6 and linkage of the genes controlling the production of lactate dehydrogenase B and peptidase B7,8.
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HANDMAKER, S. Cytogenetic Analysis of a Chinese Hamster–Mouse Hybrid Cell. Nature 233, 416–419 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233416a0
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