Infant acute leukemias show the same biased distribution of ALL1 gene breaks as topoisomerase II related secondary acute leukemias

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 2879-2883

  Cimino, Giuseppe ^a   Rapanotti, Maria Cristina ^a   Biondi, Andrea ^b   Elia, Loredana ^a   Lo Coco, Franceso ^a   Price, Cathy ^e   Rossi, Vincenzo ^b   Rivolta, Anna ^b   Canaani, Eli ^d   Croce, Carlo M ^c   Mandelli, Franco ^a   Greaves, Mel ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING);

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PROTO-ONCOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030875222     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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