Protracted Postnatal Natural Histories in Childhood Leukemia

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 335-340

  Maia, Ana Teresa ^a   Koechling, Joachim ^b   Corbett, Robin ^c   Metzler, Markus ^d   Wiemels, Joseph L ^e   Greaves, Mel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSION GENE; HUMAN; MLL GENE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRELEUKEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEL AML1 GENE;

EID: 1542283683     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20003     Document Type: Article

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