The structure of the human ALL-1/MLL/HRX gene

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 417-428

  Marschalek, R ^a   Nilson, I ^a   Lochner K ^a   Greim, R ^a   Siegler, G ^a   Greil, J ^a   Beck, J D ^a   Fey, G H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALL 1; Exon intron structure; HRX; Htrx1 gene; MLL

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN ALL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; CANCER GENETICS; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ONCOGENE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW;

EID: 0031445304     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10428199709058308     Document Type: Review

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