A Guide to Cytogenetic Studies in Haematological Disorders

Special Report No. 1 of the Association of Clinical Cytogeneticists' United Kingdom External Quality Assessment Scheme

by Christine Harrison (Editor), Margaret Fitchett, Tony Potter and John Swansbury

No. 1 in the Second Series of Occasional Papers from the Eugenics Society (September 1987)

Summary of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Culture and preparative techniques for leukemia samples

3. Special techniques

4. Priority rating of samples

5. Chromosome Analysis

6. Reporting of cases

7. Special considerations for the individual leukemic types

8. Use of spleen tissue for cytogenetic investigation

9. Bone marrow transplantation

10. Oncogenes

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