Detection of clonotypic IGH and TCR rearrangements in the neonatal blood spots of infants and children with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Blood

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 264-268

  Yagi, Tomohito ^a   Hibi, Shigeyoshi ^b   Tabata, Yasuhiro ^b   Kuriyama, Kikuko ^b   Teramura, Tomoko ^b   Hashida, Tetsuo ^b   Shimizu, Yoshitaka ^b   Takimoto, Tetsuya ^b   Todo, Shinjiro ^b   Sawada, Tadashi ^b   Imashuku, Shinsaku ^b  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONOGENESIS; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

EID: 0034234512     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v96.1.264.013k08_264_268     Document Type: Article

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