High incidence of TEL/AML1 fusion resulting from a cryptic t(12;21) in childhood B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Taiwan

Leukemia

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 991-993

  Liang, D C ^a   Chou, T B ^b   Chen, J S ^c   Shurtleff, S A ^d   Rubnitz, J E ^d,e   Downing, J R ^d,e   Pui, C H ^d,e   Shih, L Y ^b  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

B lineage immunophenotype; Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia; T(12; 21)(p12 13; q22); TEL AML1 fusion

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AGE; ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; CANCER GENETICS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME 21Q; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0030056476     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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