Identification of translocational breakpoints within the intron region before the last coding exon (exon 12) of the EVI1 gene in two cases of CML- BC with inv(3)(q21q26)

Genomics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 356-360

  Suzukawa, Kazumi ^a,b   Taki, Tomohiko ^a   Abe, Tsukasa ^b   Asoh, Hiroya ^c   Kamada, Nanao ^c   Yokota, Jun ^a   Morishita, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031172378     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4732     Document Type: Article

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