title: Proposal for a scoring of the quality of the banding of chromosomes.
abstract: We propose an objective scoring of the quality of the banding of mitoses based on the number of bands (B), the length (L), and the width (W) of chromosome 7 in metaphase as used in the formula [LnB square root L/W]2. When no figure shows the quality of mitoses from which a breakpoint is described, this scoring could give information about it. It could be applied in cytogenetic cancer studies as well as for preparations with high resolution banding.
mesh_terms: D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002871:Chromosome Banding / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008938:Mitosis