Novel bcl-2 breakpoints in patients with follicular lymphoma

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 85-89

  Wang, Y Lynn ^a   Addya, Kathakali ^a   Edwards, Robin H ^a   Rennert, Hanna ^a   Dodson, Lori ^a   Leonard, Debra G B ^a   Wilson, Robert B ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bcl 2; Follicular lymphoma; Minisatellite recombination; Residual disease; t(14; 18); Translocation breakpoints

Indexed keywords

COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ONCOGENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, BCL-2; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031659614     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-199804000-00004     Document Type: Article

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