Bi-allelic silencing of the Fanconi anaemia gene FANCF in acute myeloid leukaemia

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 469-471

  Tischkowitz, Marc ^a   Ameziane, Najim ^b   Waisfisz, Quinten ^b   De Winter, Johan P ^b   Harris, Richard ^c   Taniguchi, Toshiyasu ^d   D'Andrea, Alan ^d   Hodgson, Shirley V ^a   Mathew, Christopher G ^a   Joenje, Hans ^b  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukaemia; Chromosomal instability; FANCF; Fanconi anemia; Silencing

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FANCF GENE; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENE; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMOGENESIS; METHYLATION; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALLELES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; FANCONI ANEMIA; FANCONI ANEMIA COMPLEMENTATION GROUP F PROTEIN; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0242298162     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04640.x     Document Type: Article

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