Knowledge Center – Cytogenetics

A study on complex karyotypes in leukemia by routine G-banding and whole chromosome painting: A report on four Filipino cases

complex karyotype, GTG-banding, whole chromosome painting, spectral karyotyping, multicolor FISH

Performance of CellDetect for detection of bladder cancer: Comparison with urine cytology and UroVysion

Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) and Its Correlation with Induction Outcomes

Dr. Ajeitha Loganathan and her colleagues at the Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital in India have selected Applied Spectral Imaging software to capture and analyse the Metaphases of good morphology in their recent study published in the South Asian Journal of Cancer.

Defective hematopoietic differentiation of immune aplastic anemia

Applied Spectral Imaging (ASI) HiBand, digital chromosome analysis solution was used in a recent study published in “Cell Death and Disease”. The study named “Defective hematopoietic differentiation of immune aplastic anemia patient-derived iPSCs” derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patients diagnosed with immune Aplastic anemia (AA) who responded to intensive immunosuppressive therapy (IST), had normal-for-age telomeres, and carried no pathogenic variants in inherited AA-related genes by next-generation sequencing, and investigated their hematopoietic differentiation potential and telomere functionality. Study indicate that iPSCs are a reliable platform to model immune AA and recapitulate clinical phenotypes, and propose that the immune attack may cause specific epigenetic changes in the hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) that limit adequate proliferation and differentiation.

Comprehensive analysis of genetic factors predicting overall survival in Myelodysplastic syndromes

Comprehensive analysis of genetic factors predicting overall survival in Myelodysplastic syndromes. Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of clonal hematological disease with high risk of progression to AML. Genetic lesions (Cytogenetic and Molecular mutations) are known to help in prognosticating the MDS patients. Accurate risk stratification is of importance for the proper management and treatment strategy planning of MDS. digital FISH analysis was carried out using ASI's HiFISH