Analysis of FLT3 gene mutations in de novo myelodysplastic syndromes. FLT3 internal tandem duplication detected in a case of refractory anemia

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2437-2440

  Pappa, Vassiliki ^a   Papageorgiou, Sotirios ^a   Kontsioti, Frieda ^a   Papageorgiou, Efstathios ^a   Tsiotra, Panayioula ^a   Dervenoulas, John ^a   Economopoulos, Theofanis ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD135 ANTIGEN; ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANEMIA, REFRACTORY; FEMALE; FMS-LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 3; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 37149006421     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190701665962     Document Type: Article

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