Rapid isolation of chromosomal breakpoints from patients with t(4;11) acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Implications for basic and clinical research

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 3357-3362

  Reichel, Martin ^a   Gillert, Esther ^a   Breitenlohner, Ina ^a   Repp, Reinald ^a   Greil, Johann ^a   Beck, Jörn D ^a   Fey, Georg H ^a   Marschalek, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CYTOGENETICS; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALU ELEMENTS; BINDING SITES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPAIR; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033565246     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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