The process in which the association between sister chromatids of a replicated chromosome along the length of the centromeric region is maintained as chromosomes condense, attach to the spindle in a bipolar orientation, and congress to the metaphase plate during a mitotic cell cycle.
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maintenance of centromeric mitotic sister chromatin cohesion; maintenance of mitotic sister chromatin cohesion at centromere; maintenance of sister chromatin cohesion at centromere at mitosis