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Table 3 Constitutional and oncological cytogenetic analyses surveyed by SIGU since 2000

From: Survey of medical genetic services in Italy: year 2011

 

Year

Type of tissue/analysis

2000

2002

2004

2007

2011

Prenatal cytogenetic tests

Number

 Amniotic Fluid

77395

95729

101011

101750

97320

 Chorionic villi

9169

15159

18357

25691

25520

 Fetal blood

784

808

870

478

383

 Spontaneous abortions

2874

5231

6483

8415

5856

 Prenatal FISH

 

8643

20032

26331

2891a

 Rapid FISH for aneuploidies

4288

 Microarray (CGH and SNPs)

  

393

1862

 Total Prenatal tests

90222

125570

146753

163058

138120

Postnatal cytogenetic tests

 

 Peripheral blood

 

65148

81153

8,478

69841

 Fibroblasts

493

1258

1184

811

 Other

213

502

 Postnatal FISH

4776

22999

22653

5819b

 Microarray (CGH and SNPs)

  

1443

8290

 Total Postnatal tests

49696

70630

105410

108758

85263

Oncological cytogenetic tests

 

 Bone marrow

 

23445

27323

34500

31538

 Peripheral blood

2873

 Solid tumors

1671

2482

 Metaphase ish

8383

4112

6565

4142

 Interphase ish

27821

 Microarray (CGH and SNPs)

   

1916

 Total oncological cytogenetic tests

15948

33499

31435

41065

70772

TOTAL CYTOGENETIC TESTS

155866

229699

283598

312881

294155

  1. aFISH for microdeletion syndromes (897), subtelomeric regions (276), extra structurally abnormal chromosomes (599) and rearrangement (1119) characterization. bFISH for microdeletion syndromes (2662), subtelomeric regions (1186), extra structurally abnormal chromosomes (455) and rearrangement (1516) characterization