Skin (fibroblast) Chromosomal Breakage Provider
Guy’s & St Thomas’s are the only centre in the UK that performs skin chromosomal breakage testing on skin biopsy obtained cultured fibroblasts (and on amniotic/chorionic tissue for the purposes of antenatal testing).
Enquiries to Dr Ian Kesterton at:-
More information on Guys and St Thomas’s cytogenetics services.
Note that chromosomal breakage on skin biopsy obtained fibroblast culture takes up to six weeks and may be inconclusive.
