Departments    Clinical Analisys    Cytogenetics unit     Director:   Dr. Ángeles Twose      ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES - - Cell cultures - Cells cultures extraction - Molecular cytogenetics (FISH) - Image analysis systems:       - Optical microscopy       - Fluorescent microscopy       - Image analyzer Cytovision   WORKING AREAS - - Prenatal diagnosis:       - Amniotic fluid karyotype, chorionic villi, foetal blood and egg         remnants       - Detection of aneuploidies by Molecular cytogenetics (FISH) - Postnatal diagnosis - Chromosome studies with high resolution techniques - Cytogenetic studies in neoplasias:       - Bone marrow and peripheral blood karyotype       - Oncohematologic molecular and cytogenetics (FISH) studies       - FISH study in paraffin embedded tisue       - FISH study in urine sample - Male fertility studies (Sperm cell FISH) - Molecular cytogenetics, in situ hybridisation (FISH):       - Detection of microdeletions       - Centromeric probes       - Specific sequence probes - Foetal maturity Biochemistry Haematology Allergy Immunology Molecular Virology and     Microbiology Molecular Genet. and     Hereditary Diseases Hormones and Tumour     Marker Cytogenetics Clinical Microbiology Toxicology Image Analysis