knob (CURRENT_RELEASE) | 
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| SO Accession: | SO:0002257 (SOWiki) | 
| Definition: | Cytologically observable heterochromatic regions of chromosomes away from centromeres that contain predominatly large tandem repeats and retrotransposons. | 
| Synonyms: | Heterochromatin Knob | 
| DB Xrefs: | PMID: 6439888 | 
| Parent: | repeat_region (SO:0000657) | 
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