Oncogenesis in utero: Fetal death due to acute myelogenous leukaemia with an MLL translocation

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 539-542

  Hunger, Stephen P ^a,c,d   Mcgavran, Loris ^b,c   Meltesen, Lynne ^b   Parker, Natalie B ^b   Kassenbrock, C Kenneth ^b   Bitter, Mitchell A ^b  

^a Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

AML; Fetus; Infant; MLL; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CYTOGENETICS; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FETAL DEATH; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MONOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0031755947     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00994.x     Document Type: Article

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