A two-color BCR-ABL probe that greatly reduces the false positive and false negative rates for fluorescence in situ hybridization in chronic myeloid leukemia

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-115

  Grand, F H ^a   Chase, A ^a   Iqbal, S ^a   Nguyen, D X ^a   Lewis, J L ^a   Marley, S B ^a   Davidson, R J ^a   Goldman, J M ^a   Gordon, M Y ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COLONY FORMING UNIT GM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; AGED; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; DNA PROBES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FUSION PROTEINS, BCR-ABL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031662921     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199810)23:2<109::AID-GCC3>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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