Methylation analysis of asparagine synthetase gene in acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells [8]

Leukemia

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1303-1306

  Akagi, Tadayuki ^a   Yin, D ^a   Kawamata, N ^a   Bartram, C R ^b   Hofmann, W K ^c   Wolf, I ^a   Miller, C W ^a   Koeffler, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; ASPARTATE AMMONIA LIGASE; BISULFITE; CYTOSINE; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE; PLASMID VECTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BONE MARROW; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CPG ISLAND; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; SAMPLE; T CELL LEUKEMIA;

EID: 33745191476     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2404216     Document Type: Letter

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