Crosslineage TCR delta rearrangements occur shortly after the DJ joinings of the IgH genes in childhood precursor B ALL and display age- specific characteristics

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-121

  Schneider, Monika ^a   Panzer, Simon ^a   Stolz, Frank ^a   Fischer, Susanna ^a   Gadner, Helmut ^a   Panzer Grümayer, E Renate ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Age specific rearrangements; ALL; IgH rearrangements; In utero transformation; TCR delta rearrangements

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LEUKEMOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0030728519     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1997.3653179.x     Document Type: Article

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