More on geographic hematology: The breakpoint cluster regions of the PML/RARα fusion gene in Mexican Mestizo patients with promyelocytic leukemia are different from those in caucasians

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1365-1368

  Ruiz Argüelles, Guillermo J ^a,b   Garcés Eisele, Javier ^b,c   Reyes Núñez, Virginia ^b   Gómez Rangel, José David ^a   Ruiz Delgado, Guillermo J ^d  

^a Ctro Hematol Med Int de Puebla   (Mexico)

^b Laboratorios Clinicos de Puebla   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Leukemia; Mexicans; PML RAR ; Promyelocytic

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EXON; FUSION GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INDIAN; INTRON; MEXICO; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME;

ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXONS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTRONS; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MEXICO; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN;

EID: 2542602947     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190310001657344     Document Type: Article

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