Two patients with novel BCR/ABL fusion transcripts (e8/a2 and e13/a2) resulting from translocation breakpoints within BCR exons

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 434-436

  How, G F ^a   Lim, L C ^a   Kulkarni, S ^b   Tan, L T ^a   Tan, P ^a   Cross, N C P ^b  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ALL; BCR ABL; Bubble PCR; CML

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032899180     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1999.01372.x     Document Type: Article

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