Subject Index
A
ABCDI 479
Aberration frequencies 297
Abortion material 149
Acid treatment 152
Actinomycin D 320
Air dry 314
Alkali-labile site 289
Alkaline phosphatase 346
Alkaline phosphatase system 17
Alkaline unwinding 282, 285
Alpha satellite DNA 156, 269
a-satellite centromere-specific DNA
probes 117
Alternative cascades 450
AMCA fluorescence intensity
consistently too low 459
Amniocytes 363,371,381,382,384
Amniotic fluid cells 115
Anaphase B 329
Aneuploidies 97, 116, 135, 197, 482
Angelman syndrome 30
Aniridia/Wilms tumor 30
Annealing of probe 8
Anti-digoxigenin-rhodamine 296
Antifade 17,224
- Antifade solution 401
- Antifading solution 411
Apoptosis 171, 289
Apparent diameter 52
Archival cytogenetic slides 141
Archival material 148, 149
Arm-specific partial paints 405
Array CGH 475
Artificial nucleic acids 5
Auto fluorescence 64, 149,457
Automatic exposure control 55
Automatic integration time
control 62
Average ratio profLles 212
Avidin 17
B
B19 parvovirus 356
BAC 226,234,241,246,247,249
Background 53,421
- Background correction 63
- Background fluorescence 53
- Background in yeast FISH 342
Bakers yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
329
Bar-coding 20
Beckwith-Weidemann syndrome 36
Biotin 13, 351, 396
Biotin-labeled probe 417
Bivalent 330
Blastomeres 363, 370, 381, 382, 383, 384
Bleaching 17
Blood smear 90
Bone marrow 83, 144
Bouquet stage 338
Breast cancer 155
- Ductal breast carcinoma 157
- Breast tumor 144
Bromodeoxyuridine 264
- BrdU 75,80
BT buffer 313
BT474 481
Budding rate 333, 342
C
Cotl DNA 16, 197, 199,223,313
Canada balsam 142
Cancerous effusion 144