Introduction

The Cytogenetics Unit in collaboration with Laboratory of Hematology. Hematology Service from Hospital ICO-Germans Trias i Pujol (Badalona) is responsible for analytical tests belonging to the Hematology Service from samples of whole blood, serum, plasma, urine, body fluids, bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and tumor masses. The available analysis include Cytogenetics (karyotype), FISH and SNP-microarrays (in collaboration with Unit of Microarrays from IJC).

The Cytogenetics Unit includes the Laboratory of Cytogenetics of the Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO) from Badalona. The Unit process more than 3000 samples per year from ICO Badalona, from ICO Girona and ICO Bellvitge.

The services that the Cytogenetics Unit offers are listed below:

-        Conventional cytogenetics culture and karyotype performance

-        Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with commercial probes

-        QF-PCR.

-        Microarrays. SNP microarrays