Since the first reports of cytogenetic abnormalities in ALL, repeated small and large scale studies have shown that cytogenetic abnormalities detected at presentation continue to be the most important predictor o f outcome in ALL, at presentation, on relapse and even in the context o f more intensive treatment modalities. The accuracy of diagnosis is much improved by the additional application ...

DNA breakage detection-fluorescence in situ hybridization (DBD-FISH) is a recently developed technique that allows cell-by-cell detection and quantification of DNA breakage in the whole genome or within specific DNA sequences. The present investigation was conducted to adapt the methodology of DBD-FISH to the visualization and evaluation of DNA damage in buccal epithelial cells. DBD-FISH revea...

The development of a universal soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) cytogenetic map that associates classical genetic linkage groups, molecular linkage groups, and a sequence-based physical map with the karyotype has been impeded due to the soybean chromosomes themselves, which are small and morphologically homogeneous. To overcome this obstacle, we screened soybean repetitive DNA to develop a cock...

The structure and parameters of a belief network are learned in order to classify images enabling the detection of genetic abnormalities. We compare a structure learned from the data to another structure obtained utilizing expert knowledge and to the naive Bayesian classifier and study quantization in comparison to density estimation in parameter learning. 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), the assay of choice for localization of specific nucleic acids sequences in native context, is a 20-year-old technology that has developed continuously. Over its maturation, various methodologies and modifications have been introduced to optimize the detection of DNA and RNA. The pervasiveness of this technique is largely because of its wide variety of...

FISH probes are generally made out of BAC clones with genomic DNA containing a variable amount of repetitive DNA that will need to be removed or blocked for FISH analysis. To generate repeat free (RF) Probes without loss in genomic coverage, a random library is made from BAC clones by whole-genome amplification (WGA). Libraries are denatured in the presence of excess C(0)t-1 DNA and allowed to ...

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and its modification, polytene in situ hybridization (PISH) (1,2,4), have widespread application in the analysis of gene localization on interphase, metaphase and polytene chromosomes. However, available protocols use the indirect fluorescence approach, which requires the tedious and timeconsuming immunological detection step in which a fluorochrome-con...

The ability to prepare single-stranded chromosomal target DNA allows innovative uses of FISH technology for studies of chromosome organization. Standard FISH methodologies require functionally single-stranded DNAs in order to facilitate hybridization between the probe and the complementary chromosomal target sequence. This usually involves denaturation of double-stranded probes to induce tempor...