Presence of clone-specific antigen receptor gene rearrangements at birth indicates an in utero origin of diverse types of early childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Blood

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2722-2724

  Fasching, Karin ^b   Panzer, Simon ^b   Haas, Oskar A ^b   Marschalek, Rolf ^b   Gadner, Helmut ^b   Panzer Grümayer, E Renate ^a  

^a ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 4; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FUSION GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKEMOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE;

EID: 0034655598     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v95.8.2722.008k09_2722_2724     Document Type: Article

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