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Three of them were aneuploid and three diploid. The degree of N-myc patients with tumour N-amplification varied from 20 to 1500 copies without relation to ploidy. All patients with tumour N-myc amplification died of their tumour. Amplification was always associated with poor prognosis, independent of tumour cell ploidy. Four patients without such amplification also died: three had diploid tumours, the fourth was aneuploid. It is suggested that genomic N-myc amplification takes place mainly in adrenal and retroperitoneal neuroblastomas and can be a feature of tumours with and without histological signs of differentiation. 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