Internal tandem duplications of the FLT3 gene are present in leukemia stem cells

Blood

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 673-680

  Levis, Mark ^a,b   Murphy, Kathleen M ^a   Pham, Rosalyn ^a   Kim, Kyu Tae ^a   Stine, Adam ^a   Li, Li ^a   McNiece, Ian ^a   Smith, B Douglas ^a   Small, Donald ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CRB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CD38 ANTIGEN; CEP 701; FLT3 LIGAND;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLT3 GENE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANDEM REPEAT; WILD TYPE;

EID: 22144469473     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-05-1902     Document Type: Article

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