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  • adjective cytology Describing chromatin that has a loosened texture

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  • This effect may be due to the physical relaxation of a decondensed centromere, leading to physical separation of inner-centromere-anchored Aurora B from its substrates at centromeric chromatin

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alexander Samoshkin et al. 2009

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