Factors influencing the false positive and negative rates of BCR-ABL fluorescence in situ hybridization

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 246-253

  Chase, Andrew ^a   Grand, Francis ^a   Zhang, Ji Guang ^a   Blackett, Nicolas ^a   Goldman, John ^a   Gordon, Myrtle ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE;

CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FUSION PROTEINS, BCR-ABL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030934542     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199704)18:4<246::AID-GCC2>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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