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The signal patterns of the break-apart probes are usually easily interpreted. However, some cases show abnormal signal patterns leading to equivocal and challenging interpretation. The incidence of these abnormal patterns is largely unknown. Using a retrospective cohort we explored the incidence of abnormal signal patterns across common bone and soft tissue tumour types to raise awareness of this occurrence and to aid in the interpretation. In total, 1,087 bone and soft tissue tumours tested by break-apart probes were examined. The abnormal signal patterns were classified as deletion, additional copy and amplification, which were found at highest frequency in low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma (32%, 6\/19), and at moderate frequencies in those from alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (10%, 9\/94), nodular fasciitis (9%, 18\/209), synovial sarcoma (8%, 17\/207) and Ewing sarcoma\/round cell sarcoma with EWSR1-non-ETS fusions (6%, 29\/497). 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