Detection of clonal IGH gene rearrangements: Summary of Molecular Oncology Surveys of the College of American Pathologists

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-189

  Nikiforova, Marina N ^a,i   Hsi, Eric D ^b   Braziel, Rita M ^c   Gulley, Margaret L ^d   Leonard, Debra G B ^e   Nowak, Jan A ^f   Tubbs, Raymond R ^b   Vance, Gail H ^g   Van Deerlin, Vivianna M ^h  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBEDDING; FROZEN SECTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; ONCOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PATHOLOGIST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; UNITED STATES;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DATA COLLECTION; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846976999     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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