Detection of the t(2;13) chromosomal translocation in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma using the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 254-260

  Arden, Karen C ^a,b   Anderson, Michael J ^a   Finckenstein, Friedrich Graf ^a   Czekay, Suzanne ^a   Cavenee, Webster K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 2; EMBRYONAL RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, ALVEOLAR; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029738704     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199608)16:4<254::AID-GCC5>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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