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Molecular pathology is based on the principles, techniques, and tools of molecular biology as they are applied to diagnostic medicine in the clinical laboratory. These tools were developed in the research setting and perfected throughout the second half of the 20th century, long before the Human Genome Project was conceived. Molecular biology methods were used to elucidate the genetic and molecular basis of many diseases, and these discoveries ultimately led to the field of molecular diagnostics. Eventually the insights these tools provided for laboratory medicine were so valuable to the armamentarium of the pathologist that they were incorporated into pathology practice. Today, molecular diagnostics continues to grow rapidly as in vitro diagnostic companies develop new kits for the marketplace and as the insights into disease gained by the progress of the Human Genome Project develop into laboratory tests.
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- Polymerase Chain Reaction
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- Nest Polymerase Chain Reaction
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- Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplicon
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Smith-Zagone, M.J., Pulliam, J.F., Farkas, D.H. (2007). Molecular Pathology Methods. In: Leonard, D.G.B., Bagg, A., Caliendo, A.M., Kaul, K.L., Van Deerlin, V.M. (eds) Molecular Pathology in Clinical Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33227-7_2
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