Ohno Susumu (1928–2000) was a Korean-American geneticist, who studied the role of genes in evolution and sex determination.
Keywords: cytogenetics; X chromosome; gene duplication; one-to-four rule
Ohno, Susumu
Ulrich Wolf, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Published online: September 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0006240
| Further Reading | |
| Ohno S (1971) Genetic implication of karyological instability of malignant somatic cells. Physiological Reviews 51: 496–526. | |
| book Ohno S (1972) "So much ‘junk’ DNA in our genome". In: Smith HH (ed.) Evolution of Genetic Systems: Brookhaven Symposium in Biology, No. 23. New York: Gordon & Breach. | |
| book Ohno S (1974) Protochordata, Cyclostomata, and Pisces. In: John B (ed.) Animal Cytogenetics: Chordata 1, vol. 4. Berlin: Gebrüder Bornträger. | |
| Ohno S (1976) Promethean evolution as the biological basis of human freedom and equality. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 19: 527–532. | |
| Ohno S (1987) The ancestor of the adaptive immune system was the CAM system for organogenesis. Experimental and Clinical Immunogenetics 4: 181–192. | |
| Ohno S (1999) The one-to-four rule and paralogues of sex-determining genes. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 55: 824–830. | |
| Ohno S, Beçak W and Beçak ML (1964) X-autosome ratio and the behavior pattern of individual X-chromosomes in placental mammals. Chromosoma 15: 14–30. | |
| Ohno S and Epplen JT (1983) The primitive code and repeats of base oligomers as the primordial protein-encoding sequence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 80: 3391–3995. | |
| Ohno S and Hauschka TS (1960) Allocycly of the X-chromosome in tumors and normal tissues. Cancer Research 20: 541–545. | |
| Ohno S, Kaplan WD and Kinosita R (1959) Formation of the sex chromatin by a single X-chromosome in liver cells of Rattus norvegicus. Experimental Cell Research 18: 415–418. | |
| Ohno S and Ohno M (1986) The all-pervasive principle of repetitious recurrence governs not only coding sequence construction but also human endeavor in musical composition. Immunogenetics 24: 71–78. | |
| Ohno S, Wolf U and Atkin NB (1968) Evolution from fish to mammals by gene duplication. Hereditas 59: 169–187. | |
