TEL rearrangements in acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Association with p16 deletions in relapsed cases

Haematologica

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 547-548

  Nomdedéu, Josep F ^a   Badell, Isabel ^a   Estivill, Comino ^a   Carnicer, Maria José ^a   Sierra, Jorge ^a   Baiget, Montserrat ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Molecular biology; p16; p53; TEL AML1

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETV6;

ADOLESCENT; B CELL LEUKEMIA; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, B-CELL, ACUTE; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ETS; RECURRENCE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0035347074     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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