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ReviewAnnals of laboratory medicine2014

Cancer cytogenetics: methodology revisited.

Thomas S K Wan

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Review in Annals of laboratory medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Role of Interphase FISH Assay on Air-Dried Smears in Identifying Specific Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities among Pediatric Patients with Acute Leukemias.Indian journal of hematology & blood transfusion : an official journal of Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion · 2024
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  8. Chromosome Bandings and Recognition.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  13. Analysis of Hi-C Data for Discovery of Structural Variations in Cancer.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  14. Mosaicism in Human Health and Disease.Annual review of genetics · 2020
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  18. Evaluation of Cytogenetic Abnormalities in Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.Indian journal of hematology & blood transfusion : an official journal of Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Thomas S K WanHaematology Division, Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
University of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Philadelphia chromosome was the first genetic abnormality discovered in cancer (in 1960), and it was found to be consistently associated with CML. The description of the Philadelphia chromosome ushered in a new era in the field of cancer cytogenetics. Accumulating genetic data have been shown to be intimately associated with the diagnosis and prognosis of neoplasms; thus, karyotyping is now considered a mandatory investigation for all newly diagnosed leukemias. The development of FISH in the 1980s overcame many of the drawbacks of assessing the genetic alterations in cancer cells by karyotyping. Karyotyping of cancer cells remains the gold standard since it provides a global analysis of the abnormalities in the entire genome of a single cell. However, subsequent methodological advances in molecular cytogenetics based on the principle of FISH that were initiated in the early 1990s have greatly enhanced the efficiency and accuracy of karyotype analysis by marrying conventional cytogenetics with molecular technologies. In this review, the development, current utilization, and technical pitfalls of both the conventional and molecular cytogenetics approaches used for cancer diagnosis over the past five decades will be discussed.

Indexed as

Chromosome AberrationsHumansIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceKaryotypingLeukemiaNeoplasmsPrognosisCancer cytogeneticsFISHKaryotypingMolecular cytogenetics

Identifiers

PMID25368816
PMCPMC4215412
OpenAlexW1972660853

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