Gene fusions encoding chimaeric transcription factors in solid tumours

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-14

  Sorensen, Poul H B ^b   Triche, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chimaeric protein; Ewing sarcoma; Gene fusion; Transcription factor; Translocation

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CANCER GENETICS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; EWING SARCOMA; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; MYXOSARCOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SOLID TUMOR; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029990114     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scbi.1996.0002     Document Type: Review

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