Molecular dissection of t(11;17) in acute myeloid leukemia reveals a variety of gene fusions with heterogeneous fusion transcripts and multiple splice variants

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1041-1049

  Strehl, Sabine ^a   König, Margit ^a   Meyer, Claus ^b   Schneider, Björn ^b   Harbott, Jochen ^c   Jäger, Ulrich ^d   Von Bergh, Anne R M ^e   Loncarevic, Ivan F ^f   Jarosova, Marie ^g   Schmidt, Helmut H ^h   Moore, Steven D P ⁱ   Marschalek, Rolf ^b   Haas, Oskar A ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Austria)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OLOMOUC   (Czech Republic)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

ⁱ BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; OCTAPEPTIDE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 11; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 17; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MLL ACACA GENE; MLL LASP1 GENE; MLL MLLT6 AF17 GENE; MLL SEPT9 MSF GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING; ZBTB16 PLZF RARA GENE; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, MONOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33748928223     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20372     Document Type: Article

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