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Thus, those meioses did not exhibit simple MI nondisjunction, because 100% of diploids arising from MI nondisjunction would be heterozygous at the centromeres (Figure 5B).
The total assembled length is 3.08 billion bp - about 4% smaller than estimates of genome size based on flow cytometry [ 9], presumably due to the exclusion of constitutive heterochromatic regions and centromeres.
Early observations by Rabl (cited by [ 3]) in plants suggested a preferential polarization of chromosomes, with their centromeres clustered at one end of the nuclear envelope (the apical side) and the telomeres at the opposite end (the basal side).
In animals, heterochromatin is typically found near centromeres and other regions of low sequence complexity.
The second mechanism that can facilitate the dissolution of cohesin is proteolysis; this may be particularly important at centromeres.