Molecular detection of EWS-FLI1 chimeric transcripts in Ewing family tumors by nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction: Application to archival paraffin-embedded tumor tissues

APMIS

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 577-584

  Hisaoka, Masanori ^a   Tsuji, Seiji ^a   Morimitsu, Yosuke ^a   Hashimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Shimajiri, Shohei ^a   Komiya, Setsuro ^b   Ushijima, Masahiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Pathological Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimeric gene; Ewing family; EWS; FLI1; Nested reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Paraffin embedded tissue; Translocation

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOGENETICS; DATA ANALYSIS; EWING SARCOMA; EXON; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033062356     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1999.tb01595.x     Document Type: Article

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