[tri-med] Re: question regarding genetic tests: Cells counted etc

Well it is interesting to hear that Canada is not the only place where things 
go missing! Our final medication report remains missing. The doctor's notes 
from the outpatient clinic 42 hours before Annie died consist of 8 numbers or 
so on a page, and not a word among them. 
The whereabouts of the 100mcg and 20 mg withdrawn from the narc cabinet in the 
final 3 hours remains another mystery. 

You wrote
So I guess I am saying you will have to go with what you have - and if it 
were me the FISH would give you the better answers. That it was cord blood 
is good. Blood tests two embryonic lines, skin only one. Did they test again 
after birth?

I don't think the FISH really tells me much. It says the probe signals are 
compatible 
with trisomy 13 in a female. 

The abnormal result is based on scoring of a minimum of 50 interphase nuclei 
and 70% or more
and 70% or more of the nuclei having the same abnormal number of signals. 
Mosaicism and abnormalities of chromosome structure are not detected by this 
method. 

I am unclear how this info can help. 

Barb


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