Trisomy 21 is a recurrent secondary aberration in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia with TEL/AML1 gene fusion

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 272-277

  Loncarevic, Ivan F ^a   Roitzheim, Barbara ^a   Ritterbach, Jutta ^a   Viehmann, Susanne ^a   Borkhardt, Arndt ^a   Lampert, Fritz ^a   Harbott, Jochen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 2P; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME 9P; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELAPSE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 2 SUBUNIT; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; RECURRENCE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032907413     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199903)24:3<272::AID-GCC13>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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