This FISH application guide provides an overview of the principles and the basic techniques of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and primed in situ hybridization (PRINS), which are successfully used to study many aspects of genomic behavior and alterations. In 36 chapters, contributed by international experts in their particular field, the nowadays multiple approaches and applications of the powerful techniques are presented and detailed protocols are given.

"This FISH application guide provides an overview of the principles and the basic techniques of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and primed in situ hybridization (PRINS), which are successfully used to study many aspects of genomic behavior and alterations. In 36 chapters, contributed by international experts in their particular field, the nowadays multiple approaches and applications of the powerful techniques are presented and detailed protocols are given.

Molecular Cytogenetics, Probes and Equipment.- Molecular Cytogenetic Applications in Diagnostics and Research: An Overview.- Molecular Cytogenetics: The Standard FISH and PRINS Procedure.- Generation of Paint Probes by Flow-Sorted and Microdissected Chromosomes.- ISH Probes Derived from BACs, Including Microwave Treatment for Better FISH Results.- PNA-FISH Technique for In Situ Assessment of Aneuploidy.- Oligonucleotide FISH Probes.- Microscopy and Imaging Systems.- Optical Filters for FISH.- FISH With and Without COT1 DNA.- FISH Applications in Different Tissue Preparations.- Pre- and Postnatal Diagnostics and Research on Peripheral Blood, Chorion, Amniocytes, and Fibroblasts.- Prenatal Diagnostics on Uncultured Amniocytes.- Tumorcytogenetic Diagnostics and Research on Uncultured Blood or Bone Marrow and Smears.- Application of FISH to Archival Cytogenetic Slides.- Characterization of Mosaicism in Various Easy-to-Acquire Body Tissues Such as Buccal Smears, Hair Root Cells or Urine.- Characterization of Archived Formalin-Fixed/Paraffin-Embedded or Cryofixed Tissue, Including Nucleus Extraction.- FISH on Sperms, Spermatocytes and Oocytes.- Characterization of Marker Chromosomes.- Multiplex FISH and Spectral Karyotyping.- Tips and Tricks for mFISH.- Simultaneous Fluorescence Immunostaining and FISH.- Color-Changing Karyotyping (CCK), an M-FISH/SKY Alternative.- Three-Color FISH for the Detection of Individual Radiosensitivity.- FISH Banding Techniques.- cenM-FISH Approaches.- Characterization of Cryptic and Epigenetic Aberrations.- Subtelomeric and/or Subcentromeric Probe Sets.- Quantitative DNA Fiber Mapping.- Parental Origin Determination FISH: Pod-FISH.- Interphase FISH and Characterization of the Nuclear Architecture.- Interphase FISH: Detection of Intercellular Genomic Variations and Somatic Chromosomal Mosaicism.- Three-Dimensional Interphase Analysis Enabled by Suspension FISH.- Applications of FISH in Zoology, Botany and Microbiology.- Animal Probes and ZOO-FISH.- FISH Targeting of Chromosomes and Subchromosomal Regions in Yeast.- FISH on Insect Cells Transfected with Heterologous DNA: A Single-Cell-Directed Approach.- FISH on Plant Chromosomes.- FISH in Food Microbiology.- Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) and Array CGH.- Micro-CGH: Microdissection-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization.- Array CGH: Opening New Horizons.- Internet Links for FISH.- FISH and Chips on the Internet.