Refinement of the BCL2/immunoglobulin heavy chain fusion gene in t(14;18)(q32;q21) by polymerase chain reaction amplification for long targets

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-29

  Akasaka, Takashi ^a   Akasaka, Hiroshi ^a   Yonetani, Noboru ^a   Ohno, Hitoshi ^a   Yamabe, Hirohiko ^a   Fukuhara, Shirou ^b   Okuma, Minoru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 14; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 18; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; GENES, BCL-2; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J-CHAINS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031984612     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199801)21:1<17::AID-GCC4>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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