Detection of chimaeric transcripts of the immunoglobulin heavy chain and BCL6 genes by reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction in B-cell non- hodgkin's lymphomas

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 484-489

  Kawamata, Norihiko ^a   Nakamura, Yuichi ^b   Miki, Toru ^c   Sato, Eriko ^a   Isobe, Yasushi ^a   Furusawa, Sinpei ^b   Hirosawa, Shinsaku ^c   Oshimi, Kazuo ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Minimal residual disease; Non Hogkin's lymphoma, t(3; 14)(q27; q32); Semi nested PCR

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; LYMPHOMA CELL; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-6; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031810592     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00603.x     Document Type: Article

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