The incidence of submicroscopic deletions in reciprocal translocations is similar in acute myeloid leukemia, BCR-ABL positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and chronic myeloid leukemia

Haematologica

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 558-559

  Bacher, Ulrike ^a   Schnittger, Susanne ^a   Kern, Wolfgang ^a   Hiddemann, Wolfgang ^a   Haferlach, Torsten ^a   Schock, Claudia ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AML; Balanced translocations; BCR ABL positive ALL; Interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization; Submicroscopic deletions

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AML1 ETO GENE; ARTICLE; CBFB MYH11 GENE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DISEASE COURSE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERPHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MLL GENE; PML RARALPHA GENE; PROGNOSIS; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; FUSION PROTEINS, BCR-ABL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 17844401738     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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