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What disease does the genetic test fish deal with?

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Many disease: Fish refers to fluorescent in-situ hybridization and is one way of performing dna analysis. It is used for many diseases by using different probes for different diseases including cancer and inherited genetic defects. See this site for more info. http://www.webmd.com/cancer/fish-cancer-test.

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Answered 10/13/2012

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