High incidence of the ETV6/RUNX1 fusion gene in paediatric precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemias with trisomy 21 as the sole cytogenetic change: A Nordic series of cases diagnosed 1989-2005

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 352-354

  Karrman, Kristina ^a   Forestier, Erik ^b   Andersen, Mette K ^c   Autio, Kirsi ^d   Borgström, Georg ^d   Heim, Sverre ^e,f   Heinonen, Kristina ^g   Hovland, Randi ^h   Kerndrup, Gitte ⁱ   Johansson, Bertil ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^h HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

ⁱ ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; Childhood; ETV6 RUNX1; Trisomy 21

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FUSION GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STEM CELL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRISOMY 21;

ADOLESCENT; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 2 SUBUNIT; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENES, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, B-CELL, ACUTE; MALE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ETS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33749252172     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2006.06286.x     Document Type: Article

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