Analysis of hypermutation of the 5' noncoding region in the BCL-6 gene

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 286-290

  Wang, Lin ^a   Xu, Liangzhong ^b   Jin, Xiaolong ^a   Liu, Jianxiang ^a   Huang, Wei ^a   Wang, Huidong ^a   Wang, Jianmin ^a   Gu, Baiwei ^a   Yang, Wentao ^b   Liu, Hong ^c   Chen, Zhu ^a   Chen, Saijuan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XUZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

5' noncoding region; BCL 6 gene; Diffuse large cell lymphoma; Follicular lymphoma; Hypermutation

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GENETICS; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

5' FLANKING REGION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL, DIFFUSE; MUTATION; POINT MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035295550     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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