Acute myeloid leukemia possessing jumping translocation is related to highly elevated levels of EAT/mcl-1, a Bcl-2 related gene with anti-apoptotic functions

Leukemia Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-77

  Okita, Hajime ^a   Umezawa, Akihiro ^a   Fukuma, Mariko ^a   Ando, Takashi ^a   Urano, Fumihiko ^a   Sano, Makoto ^a   Nakata, Yuji ^a   Mori, Taijiro ^b   Hata, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Social Insurance Saitama Chuo Hosp   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukemia; Apoptosis; Bcl 2; EAT mcl1; Jumping translocation; TLS FUS ERG

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, LEUKEMIC; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TELOMERE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033991782     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2126(99)00137-X     Document Type: Article

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