History of Chromosome Banding Techniques
Stain or Banding Technique
 Investigator
 Year
Q-banding Caspersson, Zech, Johansson 1970
G-banding (by trypsin) Seabright 1971
G-banding (by acetic-saline) Sumner, Evans, Buckland 1971
C-banding Arrighi, Hsu 1971
R-banding (by heat and Giemsa) Dutrillaux, Lejeune 1971
G-11 stain Bobrow, Madan, Pearson 1972
Antibody bands Dev, et al 1972
R-banding (by fluorescence) Bobrow, Madan 1973
In vitro bands (by actinomycin D) Shafer 1973
T-banding Dutrillaux 1973
Replication banding Latt 1973
Silver (NOR) stain Howell, Denton, Diamond 1973
High resolution banding Yunis 1975
DAPI/distamycin A stain Schweizer, Ambros, Andrle 1978
Restriction endonuclease banding Sahasrabuddhe, Pathak, Hsu 1978
Source:
Priest, JH. Banding Procedures and Special Stains. In The Cytogenetic Symposia, 1994, B. J. Kaplan and K. S. Dale, Editors. The Association of Cytogenetic Technologists, Burbank, California, 1994.


References

Arrighi FE, Hsu TC. Localization of heterochromatin in human chromosomes. Cytogenetics 10:81-86, 1971.

Bobrow M, Madan K, Pearson, PL. Staining of some specific regions of human chromosomes, particularly the secondary constriction of No. 9. Nature New Biol. 238:122-124, 1972.

Bobrow M, Madan K. The effects of various banding procedures on human chromosomes studied with acridine orange. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics12:145-156, 1973.

Caspersson T, Zech L, Johansson C. Differential banding of alkylating fluorochromes in human chromosomes. Exp Cell Res. 60:315-319, 1970.

Dev VG; Warburton D, Miller OJ, Miller DA, Erlanger BF, Beiser SM. Consistent pattern of binding of anti-adenosine antibodies to human metaphase chromosomes. Exp Cell Res. 74:288-293, 1972.

Dutrillaux B, Lejeune J. Sur une novelle technique d'analyse du caryotype human. C R Acad Sci Paris 272:2638-2640, 1971.

Dutrillaux B. Nouveau systeme de marquage chromosomique: Les bands T. Chromosoma 41:395-402, 1973.

Howell WM, Denton TE, Diamond JR. Differential staining of the satellite regions of human acrocentric chromosomes. Experientia 31:260-262, 1975.

Latt SA. Microfluorometric detection of deoxyribonucleic acid replication in human metaphase chromosomes. Proc Nat Acad Sci. US 70:3395-3399, 1973.

Sahastrabuddhe CG, Pathak S, Hsu TC. Responses of mammalian metaphase chromosomes to endonuclease digestion. Chromosoma 69:331-338, 1978.

Schweizer D, Ambros P, Andrle M. Modification of DAPI banding on human chromosomes by prestaining with a DNA-binding oligopeptide, antibiotic distamycin A. Exp Cell Res. 111:327-332, 1978.

Seabright M. A reapid banding technique for human chromosomes. Lancet 2:971-972, 1971.

Shafer DA. Banding human chromosomes in culture with actinomycin D. Lancet 1:828, 1973.

Sumner AT, Evans HJ, Buckland RA. A new technique for distinguishing between human chromosomes. Nature New Biol. 232:31-32, 1971.

Yunis JJ, Sanchez O. The G-banded prophase chromosomes of man. Humangenetik 27:167-172, 1975.

Recommended Reading

Hsu, TC. Human and Mammalian Cytogenetics. An Historical Perspective. Springer-Verlag, New York; 1979.

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