Occurrence of an MLL/LAF4 fusion gene caused by the insertion ins(11;2)(q23;q11.2q11.2) in an infant with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 106-109

  Bruch, Jochen ^a   Wilda, Monika ^a   Teigler Schlegel, Andrea ^a   Harbott, Jochen ^a   Borkhardt, Arndt ^a   Metzler, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; STEROID;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 11; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FUSION GENE; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037402898     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.10187     Document Type: Letter

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