Rapid screening of leukemia fusion transcripts in acute leukemia by real-time PCR

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2291-2299

  Osumi, Kazuoki ^a   Fukui, Takafumi ^a   Kiyoi, Hitoshi ^b   Kasai, Masanobu ^c   Kodera, Yoshihisa ^c   Kudo, Kazuko ^c   Kato, Koji ^c   Matsuyama, Takaharu ^c   Naito, Kazuyuki ^d   Tanimoto, Mitsune ^b   Hirai, Hisamaru ^e   Saito, Hidehiko ^b   Ohno, Ryuzo ^f   Naoe, Tomoki ^b  

^a OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS NAGOYA FIRST HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Komaki Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromosomal translocation; Fusion transcript; Leukemia; Real time PCR; WT1

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; WT1 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; ONCOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; RNA;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPHASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA EXTRACTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKING TIME; ACUTE DISEASE; BONE MARROW; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; LEUKEMIA; METHODOLOGY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ACUTE DISEASE; BONE MARROW; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 0036890819     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819021000040206     Document Type: Article

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