Analysis of the t(6;11)(q27;q23) in leukemia shows a consistent breakpoint in AF6 in three patients and in the ML-2 cell line

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 206-216

  Tanabe, Satoru ^a   Zeleznik Le, Nancy J ^a   Kobayashi, Hirofumi ^a,b   Vignon, Christine ^a   Espinosa III, Rafael ^a   LeBeau, Michelle M ^a   Thirman, Michael J ^a   Rowley, Janet D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 11; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 6; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKEMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTO-ONCOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA TRITHORAX;

EID: 0029926378     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199604)15:4<206::AID-GCC2>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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