Polymorphisms in the MLL breakpoint cluster region (BCR)

Human Genetics

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-91

  Echlin Bell, Deborah R ^a,e   Smith, Lydia L ^a   Li, Loretta ^a   Strissel, Pamela L ^a,f   Strick, Reiner ^a,f   Gupta, Vandana ^a   Banerjee, Jhula ^a   Larson, Richard ^a   Relling, Mary V ^b   Raimondi, Susan C ^b   Hayashi, Yasuhide ^c   Taki, Tomohiko ^c   Zeleznik Le, Nancy ^d   Rowley, Janet D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GYRASE INHIBITOR; POLYADENYLIC ACID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; MLL PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FANCONI ANEMIA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOTE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA GENE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OVARY CANCER; PREDICTION; PRELEUKEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; RISK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME MAP; ETHNOLOGY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0037594894     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-003-0936-2     Document Type: Article

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