[Pombelist] dg and dh centromere repeats

[Mitsuhiro Yanagida]

Dear Robin and friends 
While Robin's explanation is right about that dg is the abbreviation of dogentai, and that dh is the next alphabet from g (like amber and ochre), I like to add that 

Dogentai is the Japanese translation of kinetochore rather than centromere. It literally means 'moving fundamental body'.
In Japanese, centromere is pronounced and written sen-toro-me-a by katakana.

Best,
Mitsuhiro


On 2011/10/04, at 0:46, Robin Allshire wrote:

> Japanese for centromere-kinetochore is: Dogentai = dg  dh = h is the next letter in the alphabet
> Thanks to my colleague Hiro Ohkura for the Japanese refresher course!
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> On 3 Oct 2011, at 15:40, Kristin C Scott, Ph.D. wrote:
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> Dear All,
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> I am trying to locate the paper (or anecdote) for naming the centromeric otr repeats "dg" and "dh"  by Professor Yanagida's laboratory for a class that I am teaching.  Any insight would be appreciated.
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> Many thanks,
> Kristin
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