EWS and ATF-1 gene fusion induced by t(12;22) translocation in malignant melanoma of soft parts

Nature Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 341-345

  Zucman, Jessica ^a   Delattre, Olivier ^a   Desmaze, Chantal ^a   Epstein, Alan L ^b   Stenman, Goran ^c   Speleman, Frank ^d   Fletchers, Christopher D M ^e   Aurias, Alain ^a   Thomas, Gilles ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 12; DNA BINDING; EWING SARCOMA; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; ONCOGENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION (GENETICS); TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0027183108     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0893-341     Document Type: Article

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