MLL rearrangements in infant leukemia: Is there a higher frequency in females?

Leukemia Research

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 793-795

  Ross, Julie A ^a,b   Robison, Leslie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

11q23; Etiology; Gender; Infants; Leukemia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MUTATION; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTO-ONCOGENES; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030716363     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2126(97)00051-9     Document Type: Article

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