A novel somatic K-Ras mutation in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia [11]

Leukemia

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1637-1638

  Reimann, Christian ^a   Arola, M ^b   Bierings, M ^c   Karow, A ^a   van den Heuvel Eibrink, M M ^d   Hasle, H ^e   Niemeyer, C M ^a   Kratz, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; K RAS PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAF PROTEIN;

BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DENATURING HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE INSERTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFANT; JUVENILE MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; LETTER; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MONOSOMY 7; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 33747608609     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2404303     Document Type: Letter

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