A specific deletion in the breakpoint cluster region of the ALL-1 gene is associated with acute lymphoblastic T-cell leukemias

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2171-2177

  Löchner, Klaus ^a   Siegler, Gabi ^a   Führer, Monika ^b   Greil, Johann ^a   Beck, Jörn D ^a   Fey, George H ^a   Marschalek, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL LEUKEMIA;

ADOLESCENT; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL, ACUTE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTO-ONCOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029935574     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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