X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Susumu Ohno


Ernest Beutler

A new colleague at the City of Hope and ultimately a lifelong friend, Susumu Ohno had recently demonstrated that the histologically observable Barr body present in the nuclei of mammalian female cells was a hyperchromatic X chromosome.

Susumu Ohno

He also discovered in 1956 that the Barr body of mammalian female nuclei was in fact a condensed X chromosome.

X-inactivation

In 1959 Susumu Ohno showed that the two X-chromosomes of mammals were different: one appeared like the autosomes; the other was condensed and heterochromatic.



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