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Original articles

• Phenotypic evaluations of HBB:c.93-23T>C, a nucleotide substitution in the IVS I nt 108 of β-globin gene

  (9 August, 2017)

  Margherita Vinciguerra, Filippo Cassarà, Monica Cannata, Disma Renda, Giuseppina Calvaruso, Filippo Leto, Cristina Passarello, Aurelio Maggio, Antonino Giambona
• Haemoglobin Fontainebleau (HBA2: c. 64G>C) in Oman: molecular and haematological characteristics and interaction with various haemoglobinopathies (7 August, 2017)

  Shahina Daar, Shoaib Al Zadjali, Salam Alkindi, Yasser Wali, Abdulhakeem Al-Rawas, Humood Al-Haddabi, Arwa Z Al-Riyami
• Comparison of karyotyping, TCL1 fluorescence in situ hybridisation and TCL1 immunohistochemistry in T cell prolymphocytic leukaemia

  (18 August, 2017)

  Yi Sun, Guilin Tang, Zhihong Hu, Beenu Thakral, Roberto N Miranda, L Jeffrey Medeiros, Sa A Wang
• Unrestricted faecal calprotectin testing performs poorly in the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease in patients in primary care (26 August, 2017)

  Samantha Conroy, Melissa F Hale, Simon S Cross, Kirsty Swallow, Reena H Sidhu, Ravishankar Sargur, Alan J Lobo
• A simple algorithmic approach using histology and immunohistochemistry for the current classification of adult diffuse glioma in a resource-limited set-up (11 August, 2017)

  R T Rajeswarie, Shilpa Rao, Bevinahalli N Nandeesh, T Chickabasaviah Yasha, Vani Santosh
• Innovative haematological parameters for early diagnosis of sepsis in adult patients admitted in intensive care unit (20 August, 2017)

  Sabrina Buoro, Barbara Manenti, Michela Seghezzi, Paola Dominoni, Tiziano Barbui, Arianna Ghirardi, Alessandra Carobbio, Gianmariano Marchesi, Ivano Riva, Alessandra Nasi, Cosimo Ottomano, Giuseppe Lippi
• Clinical performance evaluation of the Idylla NRAS-BRAF mutation test on retrospectively collected formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded colorectal cancer tissue (12 September, 2017)

  Louise Johnston, Michael Power, Philip Sloan, Anna Long, Angela Silmon, Ben Chaffey, Andrea Jane Lisgo, Liam Little, Ellen Vercauteren, Torben Steiniche, Tine Meyer, John Simpson
• miR-194 as predictive biomarker of responsiveness to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced rectal adenocarcinoma (4 September, 2017)

  Edoardo D’Angelo, Carlo Zanon, Francesca Sensi, Maura Digito, Massimo Rugge, Matteo Fassan, Marco Scarpa, Salvatore Pucciarelli, Donato Nitti, Marco Agostini
• Molecular profile of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: analysing tumour suppressor gene promoter hypermethylation by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (11 September, 2017)

  Marc L Ooft, Jolique van Ipenburg, Rob van Loo, Rick de Jong, Cathy Moelans, Weibel Braunius, Remco de Bree, Paul van Diest, Senada Koljenović, Rob Baatenburg de Jong, Jose Hardillo, Stefan M Willems
• Increased incidence of BK virus viraemia among patients undergoing chronic haemodialysis: a case–control study (23 September, 2017)

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