Somatic c-KIT activating mutation in urticaria pigmentosa and aggressive mastocytosis: Establishment of clonality in a human mast cell neoplasm

Nature Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 312-314

  Longley, B Jack ^a   Tyrrell, Lynda ^a   Lu, Shu Zhuang ^a   Ma, Yong Sheng ^a   Langley, Keith ^b   Ding, Tie Gang ^a   Duffy, Thomas ^a   Jacobs, Peter ^c   Tang, Laura H ^d   Modlin, Irvin ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

^c Wynberg Hospital   (South Africa)

^d VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAST CELL; MASTOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MAST CELLS; MASTOCYTOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, CONNECTIVE TISSUE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SPLENIC DISEASES; URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 0009013631     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0396-312     Document Type: Article

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