Unexpected heterogeneity of PML/RARα fused mRNA detected by nested polymerase chain reaction in acute promyelocytic leukemia

Leukemia

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 1151-1155

  Matsuoka, Akira ^a   Miyamura, Koichi ^a   Emi, Nobuhiko ^a   Tahara, Tohru ^a   Tanimoto, Mitsune ^a   Naoe, Tomoki ^b   Ohno, Ryuzo ^b   Kakizuka, Akira ^c   Evans, Ronald M ^c   Saito, Hidehiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0027292164     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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