Ig and TCR gene rearrangements in childhood ALL. Is there ethnic and socio-economic diversity of rearrangement patterns?

Leukemia Research

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1065-1066

  Scrideli, Carlos Alberto ^a   Tone, Luiz Gonzaga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; NUCLEOTIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLAST CELL; CELL CLONE; CELL LINEAGE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, B-CELL, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; MALE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33745852602     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2006.01.012     Document Type: Editorial

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