Comparative incidence of the rearrangements of TEL/AML1 and ALL1 genes in pediatric precursor B acute lymphoblastic leukemias in India

International Journal of Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1319-1322

  Inamdar, Nitin ^a   Kumar, S Ashok ^b   Banavali, Shripad D ^b   Advani, Suresh ^a   Magrath, Ian ^a   Bhatia, Kishor ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

ALL1 MLL; Developing countries; Molecular epidemiology; Pediatric leukemia; TEL AML1

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOBLAST; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INDIA; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031742848     PISSN: 10196439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.13.6.1319     Document Type: Article

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