[Karyotype on fresh tissue represents a genome-wide screen of gross chromosomal alterations, whereas fluorescence in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction detect specific defects that are characteristic of a given tumor type such as t(11;22) EWSR1-FLI1 in Ewing family tumors, t(X;18) SS18-SSX1 in synovial sarcoma, t(2;13) PAX3-FOXO1A in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, and MYCN gene amplification in neuroblastoma.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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