Publications
Although primarily a diagnostic medical laboratory, the IGENZ team collaborates extensively with colleagues both locally and internationally and in doing so has contributed to many publications.
Haematological Malignancy
Assessing copy number abnormalities and copy-neutral loss-of-heterozygosity across the genome as best practice in diagnostic evaluation of acute myeloid leukemia: An evidence-based review from the cancer genomics consortium (CGC) myeloid neoplasms working group (2018)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30344013/
Assessing copy number aberrations and copy neutral loss of heterozygosity across the genome as best practice: An evidence based review of clinical utility from the cancer genomics consortium (CGC) working group for myelodysplastic syndrome, myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative and myeloproliferative neoplasms (2018)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30377088/
Detection of complex genomic signatures associated with risk in plasma cell disorders (2017)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29153091/
Emerging Technologies in Paediatric Leukaemia (2015):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26835367/
FISH detection of PML-RARA fusion in ins(15;17) acute promyelocytic leukaemia depends on probe size (2013)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23607089/
IgE-type multiple myeloma with the late development of IgA2 kappa and plasma cell leukaemia (2010)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20025486/
Distinctive patterns of microRNA expression associated with karyotype in acute myeloid leukaemia (2008)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18478077/
AIDS-related plasmablastic lymphoma of the oral cavity associated with an IGH/MYC translocation–treatment with autologous stem-cell transplantation in a patient with severe haemophilia-A (2007)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17405744/
MicroRNA miR-181a correlates with morphological sub-class of acute myeloid leukaemia and the expression of its target genes in global genome-wide analysis (2007)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17330104/
Myelodysplastic syndrome associated with trisomy 2 (2002)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16048496/
Mutations of CEBPA in acute myeloid leukemia FAB types M1 and M2 (2003)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12661007/
Deletion of the long arm of chromosome 20 in a patient with small cell lymphocytic lymphoma (1993)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7694789/
Myelodysplastic syndrome and trisomy 14q (1992)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1458455/
Solid Tumours
Screening for anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangements in non-small-cell lung cancer in New Zealand (2020)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31318119/
NRASQ61R Mutation-specific Immunohistochemistry is Highly Specific for Either NRASQ61R or KRASQ61R Mutation in Colorectal Carcinoma (2017)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26862952/
Analysis of molecular cytogenetic changes in metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the setting of everolimus treatment: a pilot project (2014)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24524969/
Differentiation between malignant melanoma and Spitz tumour has improved over the past decade due to modern pathological techniques (2013)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24150269/
Muir-Torre syndrome-associated pleomorphic liposarcoma arising in a previous radiation field (2013)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23299928/
Enduring response to everolimus as third-line therapy in a patient with advanced renal cell carcinoma, including small-bowel metastases: loss of FHIT but normal VHL gene status (2012)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22440786/
Retrospective review of prognostic factors, including 1p19q deletion, in low-grade oligodendrogliomas and a review of recent published works (2009)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19624298/
HER2 Polysomy in aggressive head and neck cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (2009)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19269011/
Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and aneusomy of TERC: assessment of liquid-based cytological preparations (2009)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19191295/
Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: report of a case with a variant ring chromosome and metastases following pregnancy (2006)
Constitutional Cytogenetics
ATR-16 syndrome: mechanisms linking monosomy to phenotype (2020)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32005695/
Epiphyseal dysplasia and other skeletal anomalies in a patient with the 6p25 microdeletion syndrome (2006)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16906570/
Another case of interstitial del(12) involving the proposed cardio-facio-cutaneous candidate region (2005)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15889419/
Partial tetrasomy 15 due to a unique inverted triplication of chromosome15q24-q26 (2004)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15372521/
Severe musculoskeletal phenotype associated with an unbalanced t(6;10) translocation: clarification of the locus for this phenotype on distal 6p (2003)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12784294/
False-positive diagnosis of trisomy 21 using fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) on uncultured amniotic fluid cells (2003)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12673634/
A rare case of a de novo dup(19q) associated with a mild phenotype (2002)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12362043/
Supernumerary marker chromosomes 5: confirmation of a critical region and resultant phenotype
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12124728/
Prenatal diagnosis of partial tetrasomy 14: a case study (2002)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11857618/
Interstitial deletion of 3p22.2-p24.2: the first reported case (2001)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11403048/
Homozygous deletion of SHOX in a mentally retarded male with Langer mesomelic dysplasia (2000)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11186941/
Trisomy of 3pter in a patient with apparent C (trigonocephaly) syndrome (2000)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11038445/
The use of a specific clinical history in counselling a family with the balanced translocation 46,XY,t(4;12)(p15.2;q21.3): viable offspring with partial monosomy 4p and trisomy 12q (1998)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9727755/
Trisomy 2q11.2–>q21.1 resulting from an unbalanced insertion in two generations (1998)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9598728/
Mosaicism with a normal cell line and an autosomal structural rearrangement (1994)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8182714/
Others
Validation of a molecular assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 in saliva (2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35728108/
MicroRNA detection in bone marrow cells by LNA-FISH (2010)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20827525/
Radiosensitivity of new and established human melanoma cell lines: comparison of [3H]thymidine incorporation and soft agar clonogenic assays (1994)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7999427/