Using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in genome mapping
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Zebrafish Whole Mount High-Resolution Double Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization
Published on: March 24, 2009
J R Korenberg1, T Yang-Feng, R Schreck
1Ahmanson Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Trends in Biotechnology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) provides one of the most effective and rapid approaches for assigning and ordering DNA fragments within single eukaryotic chromosome bands. These techniques have wide applications not only for the mapping of the human genome and the genomes of other organisms, but also in clinical cytogenetics, somatic cell genetics, cancer diagnosis and gene expression studies.
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