Molecular Cytogenetics of Brain Tumors

Cytogenetics and molecular genetics of childhood brain tumors.

Considerable progress has been made toward improving survival for children with brain tumors, and yet there is still relatively little known regarding the molecular genetic events that contribute to tumor initiation or progression. Nonrandom patterns of chromosomal deletions in several types of childhood brain tumors suggest that the loss or inactivation of tumor suppressor genes are critical e...

Molecular Cytogenetics and Cytogenomics of Brain Diseases

Molecular cytogenetics is a promising field of biomedical research that has recently revolutionized our thinking on genome structure and behavior. This is in part due to discoveries of human genomic variations and their contribution to biodiversity and disease. Since these studies were primarily targeted at variation of the genome structure, it appears apposite to cover them by molecular cytoge...

Contributions of Cytogenetics and Molecular Cytogenetics to the Diagnosis of Adipocytic Tumors

Over the last 20 years, a number of tumor-specific chromosomal translocations and associated fusion genes have been identified for mesenchymal neoplasms including adipocytic tumors. The addition of molecular cytogenetic techniques, especially fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), has further enhanced the sensitivity and accuracy of detecting nonrandom chromosomal translocations and/or othe...

Molecular cytogenetics of bone and soft tissue tumors.

Classification of Primary Brain Tumors: Molecular Aspects

The guiding principle of this chapter is the importance of combining traditional morphological data with the recently acquired knowledge on the genetic and epigenetic signalling pathways which drive the evolution of CNS tumors. The official World Health Organization terminology (WHO, 2007) will be used since it is the source of information for neurooncology, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, etc. I...