Abstract
Cytogenetic analysis of tumour material has been greatly enhanced over the past 30 years by the application of a range of techniques based around fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Fluorescence detection for in situ hybridization has the advantage of including the use of a multitude of fluorochromes to allow simultaneous specific detection of multiple probes by virtue of their differential labelling and emission spectra. FISH can be used to detect structural (translocation/inversion) and numerical (deletion/gain) genetic aberrations. This chapter will deal with FISH methods to detect and localize one or more complementary nucleic acid sequences (probes) within a range of different cellular targets including metaphase chromosomes, nuclei from cell suspension, and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded FFPE tissue sections. Methods for the efficient localization of probes to FFPE tissue cores in tissue microarrays (TMAs) are also described.
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Kearney, L., Shipley, J. (2012). Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization for Cancer-Related Studies. In: Dwek, M., Brooks, S., Schumacher, U. (eds) Metastasis Research Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 878. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-854-2_10
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