T Cell Gene Rearrangement Analysis, MRD - Children's Hospital Colorado

Performing Section

PRECISION DIAGNOSTICS

Collect specimen according to standard operating procedure.

Whole Blood/Bone Marrow : Purple Top Tube-EDTA

Mouth: Buccal Swab

Tissue (Fresh-Frozen, Paraffin Embedded, or RPMI)

Whole Blood/Bone Marrow

Preferred: 4.0 mL

Minimum: 0.5 mL

*Receipt of blood or bone marrow within 72 hours of collection. Delays may impact nucleic acid quality.

Tissue

Preferred: uncut paraffin-embedded tissue block. Slides: 1 stained and 10 unstained - 10 micron thick slides

*Receipt within 24 hours of cutting or as soon as possible. Delays may impact nucleic acid quality.

Store and ship ambient. If transport is longer than 4 hours send refrigerated on cold pack.
For frozen tissue please send on dry ice- ASAP.

Ambient/Refrigerated

T Cell Result

Not Detected

10 days

Option to run diagnostic specimen if available and not previously performed by NGS

MRD T Cell Receptor Gamma (TCRG ) Gene Rearrangement

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