5′ RARA submicroscopic deletion from new variant translocation involving chromosomes 15, 17, and 18, in a case of acute promyelocytic leukemia

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-55

  Stavropoulou, Chryssa ^a   Georgakakos, Vasileios N ^a   Manola, Kalliopi N ^a   Pagoni, Maria ^b   Garofalaki, Maria ^b   Pantelias, Gabriel E ^a   Sambani, Constantina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; PML RARA FUSION GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; RARA GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; MIDDLE AGED;

RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 40049110403     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2007.12.011     Document Type: Article

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