Abstract

Cell hybrids have been extensively utilized for gene mapping; more than 50 enzymes and nonenzyme proteins have been assigned to individual human chromosomes. Hybrids have also been used in the study of differentiation; fusions involving mouse or human neuroblastoma cells and various nonneuronal lines resulted in hybrid cells that continued to express neuronspecific functions. The expression of the differentiated state is, however, not an all-or-none phenomenon: One neuronal trait may be evident in such hybrids, in the absence of others. The potential usefulness of the human neuroblastoma hybrids for the assignment of genes involved in the expression of differentiated functions to specific chromosomes is discussed.

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