High detection rate of T-cell receptor beta chain rearrangements in T- cell lymphoproliferations by family specific polymerase chain reaction in combination with the GeneScan technique and DNA sequencing

Blood

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 640-646

  Assaf, Chalid ^b   Hummel, Michael ^a   Dippel, Edgar ^b   Goerdt, Sergij ^b   Müller, Hans Henning ^b   Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis ^b   Orfanos, Constantin E ^b   Stein, Harald ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL LEUKEMIA;

EID: 0034661943     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v96.2.640.014k31_640_646     Document Type: Article

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