Diagnostic Cytogenetics

I Classical Cytogenetics.- 1 Tissue Culture.- 2 Chromosome Staining.- 3 Karyotyping and Data Interpretation.- 4 Documentation.- II Postnatal Diagnosis.- 5 Peripheral Blood.- 6 Establishment of Permanent Growing Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines.- 7 Solid Tissues.- 8 Cells from Urine Sample.- 9 Classical and Molecular Cytogenetics of Tumor Cells.- 10 Cytogenetics of Meiotic Cells.- III Prenatal Diagnosis.- 11 Prenatal Diagnosis - An Introduction.- 12 Amniotic Fluid Cell Analysis.- 13 Chorionic Villi Sampling.- IV Special Applications.- 14 Diagnosis of Chromosomal Instability Syndromes.- 15 Flow Cytometric Testing for Syndromes with Chromosomal Instability, Aplastic Anemia and Related Hematological Disorders.- 16 Cell Fusion.- 17 Origin of Trisomies.- V Molecular Cytogenetics.- 18 Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization.- 19 Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (FISH) Analysis in Human Sperm Cells.- 20 Microdissection and Reverse Chromosome Painting.- 21 Comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH).- VI Techniques in Development.- 22 Fetal Cells in Maternal Blood.- 23 Spectral Karyotyping in Clinical and Tumor Cytogenetics.- 24 Chromosome Analysis by Multiplex-FISH (M-FISH).