Cytogenetic technologists analyze chromosomes found in biological specimens such as amniotic fluids, bone marrow, and blood to aid in the study, diagnosis, or treatment of genetic diseases.

Yet another advance in cytogenetic techniques involved the process known as flow cytometry, which was originally used to study distinct cell populations within a mixture of different cell types.

Since genes are packed into chromosomes, abnormal chromosomes can actually cause genetic diseases. What methods have scientists invented to study these abnormalities? Drets and Shaw then ...

Molecular risk reporting by the International Myeloma Working Group consensus 1 has so far been limited to the high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities (HRCAs) t(4;14), t(14;16), and del(17p), but recent ...

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The aim was to investigate the consistency of association of co-occurrence of high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities (HRCAs) with prognosis in patients with newly diagnosed MM (NDMM) and ...