11q23 rearrangements in acute leukemia

Leukemia

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 74-82

  Rubnitz, J E ^a,b   Behm, F G ^a,b   Downing, J R ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

11q23 translocations; Infant leukemia; MLL gene; Secondary AML

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; LEUKEMOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0030069762     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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