Complex t(1;15;17) in acute promyelocytic leukemia with duplication of RARα and PML sequences

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 52-56

  Park, Jonathan P ^a   Fairweather, Robert B ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 15; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030200168     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(95)00365-7     Document Type: Article

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