{"id":7977,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fluorescent_in_situ_hybridization_-fish\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:42","slug":"fluorescent_in_situ_hybridization_-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fluorescent_in_situ_hybridization_-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A laboratory technique that helps diagnose Williams syndrome among other disorders (and also various forms of mosaicism). &nbsp;A DNA probe for the elastin gene is made with a fluorescent label, and mixed with a sample of the patient&#8217;s DNA. &nbsp;If the elastin DNA is present, the probe will be attached (hybridise). &nbsp;This allows a determination of whether there are one or two copies of the elastin gene present.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"dna_-deoxyribonucleic_acid-\">DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)<\/a>, <a href=\"elastin_-gene-\">Elastin (gene)<\/a>, <a href=\"mosaicism\">Mosaicism<\/a>, <a href=\"williams_syndrome\">Williams syndrome<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A laboratory technique that helps diagnose Williams syndrome among other disorders (and also various forms of mosaicism). &nbsp;A DNA probe for the elastin gene is made with a fluorescent label, and mixed with a sample of the patient&#8217;s DNA. &nbsp;If the elastin DNA is present, the probe will be attached (hybridise). &nbsp;This allows a determination &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fluorescent_in_situ_hybridization_-fish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}