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. 2016 Mar 23;9:5–11. doi: 10.4137/CPath.S32784

Table 2.

Clinical and diagnostic uses of FISH (modified13).

CLINICAL USES OF FISH
1. Prenatal testing
2. Transplant pathology
3. XY FISH on sex-mismatched organ transplant
4. Disease relapse using known genetic alterations in primary tumor
5. Oncology (diagnostic, prognostic, and/or predictive markers)
6. Chromosomal aneusomies
7. Gene/Locus deletions
8. Gene amplifications
9. Translocation
10. Congenital abnormalities, such as Trisomy 13, 18, 21, XY aneusomies, Microdeletion syndromes, Cri-du-chat (5p), Prader-Willi/Angelman (15q).