HMGIY is the target of 6p21.3 rearrangements in various benign mesenchymal tumors

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 279-285

  Kazmierczak, Bernd ^a   Dal Cin, Paola ^b   Wanschura, Sylke ^a   Borrmann, Lars ^a   Fusco, Alfredo ^c   Van Den Berghe, Herman ^b   Bullerdiek, Jörn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPOMA; MESENCHYMOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS MYOMA;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; HAMARTOMA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HMGA1A PROTEIN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; LEIOMYOMA; LIPOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYPS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0344269291     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199812)23:4<279::AID-GCC1>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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