Clonality analysis by HUMARA assay in Spanish females with essential thrombocythemia and polycythemia vera

Haematologica

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 259-261

  Zamora, Lurdes ^a,b,c   Florensa, Lourdes ^b,c,d   Besses, Carles ^c,e   Bellosillo, Beatriz ^a,c   Solé, Francesc ^a,d  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

^d Del Mar University   (Spain)

^e Soledad Woessner IMAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clonality; Essential thrombocythemia; Humara; Polycythemia vera

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CD3 ANTIGEN; DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMARA GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOCYTHEMIA; X CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD3; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SPAIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 14344262558     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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