Table 1.

Availability of different techniques for genetic diagnosis in the participant centers

	Center	Karyotyping	Microdeletion detection
			FISH	MLPA	Other molecular methods	22q11.2 microdeletion (specifically)
Northeast	1	N	N	N	N	N
	2	N	N	N	N	N
	3	N	N	N	N	N
Southeast	4	Ya	Ya,b	N	Y	Ya,b
	5	Ya	Ya	Ya	Ya	Ya
	6	Ya	N	Ya,b	Yb	Yb
	7	Ya	Yb	Yb	Yb	Yb
South	8	N	N	N	N	N
	9	Ya	N	N	N	Yb
	10	N	N	N	N	N
	11	Ya	Ya	Ya	N	Ya

FISH fluorescent in situ hybridization, MLPA multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification, N no, Y yes

^aOwn unit

^bOff-site unit