Protracted and variable latency of acute lymphoblastic leukemia after TEL-AML1 gene fusion in utero

Blood

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1057-1062

  Wiemels, Joseph L ^b   Ford, Anthony M ^b   Van Wering, Elisabeth R ^b   Postma, Aleida ^b   Greaves, Mel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLONE; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEUKEMOGENESIS; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; TWINS;

EID: 0033178875     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v94.3.1057.415k10_1057_1062     Document Type: Article

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