Identification of novel HMGA2 fusion sequences in lipoma: Evidence that deletion of let-7 miRNA consensus binding site 1 in the HMGA2 3′ UTR is not critical for HMGA2 transcriptional upregulation

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 673-678

  Wang, Xiaoke ^a   Hulshizer, Rachael L ^a   Erickson Johnson, Michele R ^a   Flynn, Heather C ^a   Jenkins, Robert B ^a   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^a   Oliveira, Andre M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MICRORNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADIPOCYTE; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYRK2 GENE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HMGA2 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIPOMA; MESENCHYMOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HMGA2 PROTEIN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LIPOMA; MALE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 67650424349     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20674     Document Type: Article

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