title: Validation of break-apart and fusion MYC probes using a digital fluorescence in situ hybridization capture and imaging system.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Detection of MYC translocations using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is important in the evaluation of lymphomas, in particular, Burkitt lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Our aim was to validate a digital FISH capture and imaging system for the detection of MYC 8q24 translocations using LSI-MYC (a break-apart probe) and MYC 8;14 translocation using IGH-MYC (a fusion probe).
  
  
  METHODS
  LSI-MYC probe was evaluated using tissue sections from 35 patients. IGH-MYC probe was evaluated using tissue sections from forty patients. Sections were processed for FISH and analyzed using traditional methods. FISH slides were then analyzed using the GenASIs capture and analysis system.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results for LSI-MYC had a high degree of correlation between traditional method of FISH analysis and digital FISH analysis. Results for IGH-MYC had a 100% concordance between traditional method of FISH analysis and digital FISH analysis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Annotated whole slide images of H and E and FISH sections can be digitally aligned, so that areas of tumor within a section can be matched and evaluated with a greater degree of accuracy. Images can be archived permanently, providing a means for examining the results retrospectively. Digital FISH imaging of the MYC translocations provides a better diagnostic tool compared to traditional methods for evaluating lymphomas.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liew
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rowe
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA.
authors.forename: Parker W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Clement
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA.
authors.forename: Rodney R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Miles
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA.
authors.forename: Mohamed E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Salama
keywords: Break apart probe; GenASIs analysis system; fusion probe