title: Clinical cytogenetics and molecular cytogenetics.
abstract: The short report will be focused on helping our students to understand commonly used conventional and cutting edge cytogenetic techniques and their clinical applications, the advances and drawbacks of each technique, and how to pick the right test(s) for a specific patient in order to achieve a proper diagnosis efficiently and economically.
authors.affiliation: Medical School, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699, USA. mli2@tulane.edu
authors.forename: Marilyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pinkel
mesh_terms: D002875:Chromosomes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D020732:Cytogenetic Analysis; D003582:Cytogenetics / Q000379:methods*; D005821:Genetic Techniques; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D025202:Molecular Diagnostic Techniques; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D014178:Translocation, Genetic