Monitoring of minimal residual disease in patients with MLL-AF6-positive acute myeloid leukaemia by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 622-628

  Mitterbauer, Gerlinde ^a   Zimmer, Christine ^a   Pirc Danoewinata, Hendrati ^b   Haas, Oskar A ^b   Hojas, Sabine ^a   Schwarzinger, Ilse ^a   Greinix, Hildegard ^a   Jäger, Ulrich ^a   Lechner, Klaus ^a   Mannhalter, Christine ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukaemia; Minimal residual disease (MRD); MLL AF6; RT PCR; t(6; 11)(q27; q23)

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 6; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALVAGE THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034047850     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.02076.x     Document Type: Article

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