A novel aberrant form of e13a2 BCR-ABL1 transcript in chronic myelogenous leukemia undetectable with the standardized real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction from the Europe against cancer program

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 885-887

  Matsushita, Hiromichi ^a   Yamamoto, Miki ^b   Tsuboi, Kosuke ^a   Masukawa, Atsuko ^b   Arakawa, Satoshi ^b   Asai, Satomi ^a   Ogawa, Yoshiaki ^a   Ando, Kiyoshi ^a   Miyachi, Hayato ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

BCR ABL1; Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML); Real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RQ PCR); The Europe Against Cancer (EAC) Program

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; BCR ABL1 GENE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DEVICE; EXON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FUSION PROTEINS, BCR-ABL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 67849089074     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2009.202     Document Type: Letter

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