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When do you order genetic studies such as comparative genomic hybridization for melanocytic lesions?

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Dermatology · University of North Carolina

In my practice, I confine copy number alteration studies (SNP array testing) for cases where the biological potential of a melanocytic proliferation is in question. I do not perform the testing if the case is diagnostic histopathologically and/or immunohistochemically of a nevus or melanoma.

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