T-cell receptor gamma and delta gene rearranqements and junctional region characteristics in South Indian patients with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 215-221

  Sudhakar, Natarajan ^a   Nancy, Nirmala Karunakaran ^a   Rajalekshmy, Kamalalayam Raghavan ^a   Ramanan, Ganapathi ^a   Rajkumar, Thangarajan ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE WIA   (India)

Author keywords

Homo heteroduplex analysis; Junctional region sequence; MRD; TCRD; TCRG

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INDIA; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLONE CELLS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, DELTA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, GAMMA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR DELTA; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR GAMMA; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INDIA; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL, ACUTE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33847667563     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: 10968652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.20792     Document Type: Article

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