The effect of a novel recombination between the homeobox gene NKX2-5 and the TRD locus in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia on activation of the NKX2-5 gene

Haematologica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 317-321

  Przybylski, Grzegorz K ^a,b   Dik, Willem A ^c   Grabarczyk, Piotr ^b   Wanzeck, Jens ^b   Chudobska, Paulina ^a   Jankowski, Kacper ^a   Von Bergh, Anne ^c   Van Dongen, Jacques J M ^c   Schmidt, Christian A ^b   Langerak, Anton W ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

NKX2 5; T ALL; TRD; TRDD3

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; KIDNEY CELL; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR DELTA; GENETIC MARKERS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL, ACUTE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33645383283     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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