Variability of EWS chimaeric transcripts in Ewing tumours: A comparison of clinical and molecular data

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 908-913

  Zoubek, A ^a   Pfleiderer, C ^a   Salzer Kuntschik, M ^b   Amann, G ^b   Windhager, R ^b   Fink, F M ^c   Koscielniak, E ^d   Delattre, O ^e   Strehl, S ^a   Ambros, P F ^a   Gadner, H ^a   Kovar, H ^a  

^a Stem Cell Transplantation Unit   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d OLGAHOSPITAL   (Germany)

^e INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; ETOPOSIDE; MELPHALAN; RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE COURSE; EWING SARCOMA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KARYOTYPE; LONG BONE; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTO ONCOGENE; RNA SPLICING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0027995520     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1994.419     Document Type: Article

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