Section I: Molecular principles -- Molecular biology basics for the pathologist / Ilka Warshawsky -- Quality assurance of molecular assays / Wayne W. Grody --
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Section II: Molecular tools and techniques -- Overview of molecular diagnostic techniques and instrumentation / Daniel H. Farkas and Carol A. Holland -- Conventional and real-time polymerase chain reaction / Aaron Bossler and Vivianna Van Deerlin -- Loss of heterozygosity / Jennifer L. Hunt -- Direct genome sequencing in diagnostic pathology / Gurunathan Murugesan and Gary W. Procop -- Array-based comparative genomic hybridization in the analysis of genomic alterations in human disease / Marek Skacel, Anna Ambu Siva, and Raymond R. Tubbs -- Expression arrays: discovery and validation / Neal M. Poulin and Torsten O. Nielsen -- Epigenetics: DNA hypermethylation in cancer / Bin Yang -- Tissue microarrays / Ziad Peerwani -- Fluorescence in situ hybridization / James R. Cook -- Bright-field in situ hybridization / Ricardo V. Lloyd, Xiang Qian, and Long Jin -- Immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor gene rearrangement / Margaret L. Gulley -- Monitoring of minimal residual hematologic disease / Cuihong Wei, Jeffrey H. Lipton, and Suzanne Kamel-Reid -- Molecular detection of circulating tumor cells / Karen L. Kaul -- Intraoperative molecular staging using real-time polymerase chain reaction / Tony E. Godfrey --
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Section III: Diagnostic molecular pathology applications -- Molecular cytopathology / Karen S. Gustafson and Douglas P. Clark -- Molecular diagnosis of infectious agents in tissue / Randall T. Hayden and Gary W. Procop -- Molecular neuropathology / Richard Prayson -- Molecular pathology of the cardiovascular system / Carmela D. Tan and E. Rene Rodriguez -- Molecular pulmonary pathology / Samuel Yousem and Sanja Dacic -- Molecular dermatopathology / Alexander J.F. Lazar, Jason W. Nash, and Abdul Hafeez Diwan -- Molecular gastrointestinal, liver, and pancreatic pathology / Rish K. Pai, Rebecca Wilcox, and John Hart -- Molecular endocrine pathology / Jennifer L. Hunt -- Molecular hematopathology / James R. Cook -- Molecular pathology of bone and soft tissue tumors / Brian P. Rubin, Alexander J.F. Lazar, and Andre M. Oliveira -- Molecular pathology of breast cancer / David G. Hicks -- Molecular genitourinary pathology / Donna E. Hansel, Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, and Ming Zhou -- Molecular gynecologic pathology / Monica Prasad Hayes, Edyta C. Pirog, and Lora Hedrick Ellenson -- Pediatric molecular pathology / Robin LeGallo.