Prognostic value of internal tandem duplication of the FLT3 gene in childhood acute myelogenous leukemia

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 525-529

  Kondo, Masaru ^a   Horibe, Keizo ^a   Takahashi, Yoshiyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Kimikazu ^a   Fukuda, Minoru ^a   Inaba, Jun ^a   Kato, Koji ^b   Kojima, Seiji ^b   Matsuyama, Takaharu ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS NAGOYA FIRST HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myelogenous leukemia; Children; FLT3 gene; Prognostic factor; Tandem duplication

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; JUXTAGLOMERULAR APPARATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FMS-LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 3; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032757551     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199912)33:6<525::AID-MPO1>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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