Cell and Tissue Based Molecular Pathology

SECTION I. MOLECULAR PRINCIPLES
Chapter 1 Molecular Biology Basics for the Pathologist, Ilka Warshawsky
Chapter 2 Quality Assurance of Molecular Assays, Wayne W. Grody
SECTION II. MOLECULAR TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Chapter 3 Overview of Molecular Diagnostic Techniques and Instrumentation, Daniel H. Farkas and Carol A. Holland
Chapter 4 Conventional and Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Aaron Bossler and Vivianna Van Deerlin
Chapter 5 Loss of Heterozygosity, Jennifer L. Hunt
Chapter 6 Direct Genome Sequencing in Diagnostic Pathology, Gurunathan Murugesan and Gary W. Procop
Chapter 7 Array-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization in the Analysis of Genomic Alterations in Human Disease, Marek Skacel, Ana Ambu Siva, and Raymond R. Tubbs
Chapter 8 Expression Arrays: Discovery and Validation, Neal Poulin and Torsten O. Nielsen
Chapter 9 Epigenetics: DNA Hypermethylation in Cancer, Bin Yang
Chapter 10 Tissue Microarrays, Ziad Peerwani
Chapter 11 Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization, James R. Cook
Chapter 12 Bright Field in Situ Hybridization, Ricardo V. Lloyd, Xiang Qian, and Long Jin
Chapter 13 Immunoglobulin and T-Cell Receptor Gene Rearrangement, Margaret L. Gulley
Chapter 14 Monitoring of Minimal Residual Hematologic Disease, Cuihong Wei, Jeffrey H. Lipton, and Suzanne Kamel-Reid
Chapter 15 Molecular Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells, Karen L. Kaul
Chapter 16 Intraoperative Molecular Staging Using Real-Time PCR, Tony E. Godfrey
SECTION III. DIAGNOSTIC MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY APPLICATIONS
Chapter 17, Molecular Cytopathology, Karen S. Gustafson and Douglas P. Clark
Chapter 18 Molecular Diagnosis of Infectious Agents in Tissue, Randall T. Hayden and Gary W. Procop
Chapter 19 Molecular Neuropathology, Richard Prayson
Chapter 20 Molecular Pathology of the Cardiovascular System, Carmela D. Tan and E. Rene Rodriguez
Chapter 21 Molecular Pulmonary Pathology, Samuel Yousem and Sanja Dacic
Chapter 22 Molecular Dermatopathology, Alexander J.F. Lazar,