In vivo amplification of the PAX3-FKHR and PAX7-FKHR fusion genes in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-21

  Barr, Frederic G ^a   Nauta, Lauren E ^a   Davis, Richard J ^a   Schäfer, Beat W ^b   Nycum, Lynn M ^c   Biegel, Jaclyn A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 1; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 13; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE NUMBER; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX7 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, ALVEOLAR; RNA, NEOPLASM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030059906     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.1.15     Document Type: Article

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