Mitomycin C is known to induce somatic crossing over in lower eukaryotes. This study is carried out to find out that Mitomycin C might also induce mitotic crossing over in human lymphocytes. Peripheral blood lymphocyte from normal males were treated w...
Mitomycin C is known to induce somatic crossing over in lower eukaryotes. This study is carried out to find out that Mitomycin C might also induce mitotic crossing over in human lymphocytes. Peripheral blood lymphocyte from normal males were treated with mitomycin C. Mitomycin C was able to alter C-band polymorphism of human chromosomes 1, 9, 16. Evidence is presented which show that mitomycin C-induced C-band polymorphism arise from mitotic crossing over.