Human Cytogenetics: Malignancy and Acquired Abnormalities: A Practical Approach
by D. E. Rooney (Editor), Barbara Czepulkowski (Editor)
Paperback: 287 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0199638411; 3rd edition (July 15, 2001)
The 1986 and 1992 editions are here updated to account for new technologies and applications of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) both to diagnostic and research cytogenetics. The contributors however, recognize that though automated cell harvesters are available to some, most laboratory researchers still analyze G- banded chromosomes through the microscope, and so describe such conventional methods and technologies. Otherwise, they primarily survey the use of cytogenetics in various pathological conditions