Monozygotic twins with congenital acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and t(4;11)(q21;q23)

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-180

  Bayar, Emel ^b   Kurczynski, Thaddeus W ^c   Robinson, Margaret G ^c   Tyrkus, Michael ^c   Al Saadi, A ^a  

^a William Beaumont Hospital   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 11; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 4; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030586221     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(94)00293-2     Document Type: Article

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