Cytogenomics Array Group

What is the Cytogenomics Array Group?

The Cytogenomics Array Group (CAG) began as an informal network of colleagues in North and South Carolina (originally the "Carolinas Array Group") formed to exchange information between laboratories regarding constitutional microarrays and rare case findings. In order to facilitate this exchange, we created a web-accessible database (CAGdb) to house each laboratory’s abnormal cases, which could then be freely shared in a de-identified fashion with all participating laboratories. CNV details, interpretation comments, parental and other follow-up data, and clinical features (all fully stripped of patient identifiers) are collected and shared for each case in this site. This database provides a useful laboratory tool to track experience with in-house microarray cases, network with colleagues, and to share experience with rare findings. Additionally, this resource is meant to facilitate submission to other larger-scale data collections in order to aid in syndrome discovery efforts and make information on rare cases more broadly available. Participating laboratories are encouraged to submit data to NCBI’s ClinVar project (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/) through the ISCA data collection (http://www.iscaconsortium.org/). With laboratory permission, all cases, or any subset of selected cases, in the CAGdb will be reformatted and submitted to NCBI on that laboratory’s behalf. We encourage participation from any interested laboratories and invite suggestions for improvement of the functionality of the project. This is operated as a non-profit resource through the Mission Healthcare Foundation and is freely available to all participants.

For more information about participation in the Cytogenomics Array Group and this database, please contact the site administrator (currently Dr. Hutton Kearney, Fullerton Genetics Center/Mission Health) at the following address: .

CAG Scientific Advisory Board

William P. Allen, MD, FACMG Clinical Geneticist Fullerton Genetics Center Mission Health Systems Asheville, NC Alka Chaubey, PhD, FACMG Assistant Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory Greenwood Genetics Center Greenwood, SC Kathleen Kaiser-Rogers, PhD, FACMG Assoc. Director ,Cytogenetics Laboratory Professor Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics UNC Health System Chapel Hill, NC Hutton M. Kearney, PhD, FACMG Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory Assoc. Director, Molecular Genetics Laboratory Fullerton Genetics Center Mission Health Asheville, NC Michael Lyons, MD, FACMG Clinical Geneticist Greenwood Genetics Center Charleston, SC Catherine Rehder, PhD, FACMG Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory Assoc. Director, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory Duke University Health System Durham, NC

Cynthia Powell, MD, MS, FACMG Clinical Geneticist Assoc. Professor, Division Chief Pediatric Genetics/Metabolism UNC Health System Chapel Hill, NC Sarah South, PhD, FACMG Medical Director, ARUP Laboratories Cytogenetics, Microarray, Genetic Processing Assistant Professor, Dept. Pediatrics and Pathology University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT Jim Tepperberg, PhD, FACMG Director Cytogenetics Laboratory Corporation of America Raleigh, NC Karen Tsuchiya, MD, FCAP Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory Seattle Children's Hospital Assoc. Professor, Laboratory Med. University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA Daynna J. Wolff, PhD, FACMG Director, Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics Laboratory Professor, Path. and Laboratory Med. Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC

2012 Summer Microarray Workshop

WHEN	Sunday, July 22nd  12:00pm - 6:00pm Monday, July 23rd  8:00am - 5:00pm
WHERE	Renaissance Asheville Hotel, Asheville North Carolina

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