C-MYC amplification in a case of progression from MDS to AML (M2)

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-184

  Fernandez, Teresa De Souza ^a,b   Silva, Maria Luiza Macedo ^a,b   De Souza, Jamison ^a,b   De Paula, Maria Tereza M ^a,b   Abdelhay, Eliana ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Estadual de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 8; DISEASE COURSE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; ONCOGENE MYC; ONCOGENE RAS; PATHOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; TRISOMY;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, MYC; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; POINT MUTATION; TRISOMY;

EID: 0030075559     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(95)00191-3     Document Type: Letter

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