Prenatal origin of childhood acute myeloid leukemias harboring chromosomal rearrangements t(15;17) and inv(16) [1]

Blood

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 4640-4641

  McHale, Cliona M ^b   Wiemels, Joseph L ^b   Zhang, Luoping ^b   Ma, Xiaomei ^b   Buffler, Patricia A ^b   Feusner, James ^b   Matthay, Katherine ^b   Dahl, Gary ^b   Smith, Martyn T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CHILDHOOD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LATENT PERIOD; LETTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACUTE DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037804750     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-01-0313     Document Type: Letter

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