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Original articles

• High CCL27 immunoreactivity in ‘supratumoral’ epidermis correlates with better prognosis in patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma (20 June, 2016)

  Miguel Martinez-Rodriguez, Alec K Thompson, Carlos Monteagudo
• Evaluation of the optimal provision of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded material for reverse transcription-PCR in soft-tissue tumour diagnosis (20 May, 2016) Free

  Khin Thway, Dorte Wren, Jasmin Lee, Lisa Thompson, Cyril Fisher, David Gonzalez
• Expression of proliferation genes in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue from breast carcinomas. Feasibility and relevance for a routine histopathology laboratory (27 May, 2016)

  Carla Thomas, Cleo Robinson, Ben Dessauvagie, Benjamin Wood, Greg Sterrett, Jennet Harvey, Benhur Amanuel
• Intermediate microRNA expression profile in Graves’ disease falls between that of normal thyroid tissue and papillary thyroid carcinoma (1 July, 2016)

  Matthias Pohl, Florian Grabellus, Karl Worm, Georg Arnold, Martin Walz, Kurt Werner Schmid, Sien-Yi Sheu-Grabellus
• Differing expression profiles of Notch/enterocyte and Wnt/secretory lineage signallings are associated with morphological diversity of appendiceal tumours

  (1 July, 2016)

  Xianyong Gui, Ziran Meng, Yarrow J McConnell, Shuhong Liu, Vincent G Falck, Lloyd A Mack, Walley J Temple
• Review of the national external quality assessment (EQA) scheme for breast pathology in the UK (12 July, 2016)

  Emad A Rakha, Rachel L Bennett, Derek Coleman, Sarah E Pinder, Ian O Ellis
• How close are we to standardised extended RAS gene mutation testing? The UK NEQAS evaluation

  (28 September, 2016)

  Susan D Richman, Jennifer Fairley, Rachel Butler, Zandra C Deans
• Screening of (–^SEA) α-thalassaemia using an immunochromatographic strip assay for the ζ-globin chain in a population with a high prevalence and heterogeneity of haemoglobinopathies

  (16 June, 2016)

  Wittaya Jomoui, Goonnapa Fucharoen, Kanokwan Sanchaisuriya, Supan Fucharoen
• Validation of a locally derived serum calcium adjustment equation: relationship with total 25(OH) vitamin D and PTH levels (20 June, 2016)

  Jonathan Joseph Scargill, John Mark Guy
• Haemoglobinopathies that occur with decreased HbA₂ levels: a gene mutation set involving the δ gene at a Spanish centre

  (7 July, 2016)

  Ana Villegas, Fernando Ataúlfo González, Jorge M Nieto, Félix de la Fuente-Gonzalo, Rafael Martínez, María Josefa Torrejón, Paloma Ropero