ETV6-NTRK3 gene fusions and trisomy 11 establish a histogenetic link between mesoblastic nephroma and congenital fibrosarcoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 5046-5048

  Knezevich, Stevan R ^a   Garnett, Mathew J ^a   Pysher, Theodore J ^b   Beckwith, J Bruce ^c   Grundy, Paul E ^d   Sorensen, Poul H B ^a  

^a BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 11; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; GENE FUSION; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MESOBLASTIC NEPHROMA; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; TRISOMY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEPHROMA, MESOBLASTIC; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ETS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKC; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRISOMY;

EID: 0032533497     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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