Utilization of Ig heavy chain variable, diversity, and joining gene segments in children with B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Implications for the mechanisms of VDJ recombination and for pathogenesis

Blood

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4602-4609

  Li, Aihong ^b   Rue, Montse ^b   Zhou, Jianbiao ^b   Wang, Hongjun ^b   Goldwasser, Meredith A ^b   Neuberg, Donna ^b   Dalton, Virginia ^b   Zuckerman, David ^b   Lyons, Cheryl ^b   Silverman, Lewis B ^b   Sallan, Stephen E ^b   Gribben, John G ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CELL LINEAGE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA BASE; DISEASE COURSE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 2942614692     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-11-3857     Document Type: Article

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