t(19;22)(q13;q12) translocation leading to the novel fusion gene EWSR1-ZNF444 in soft tissue myoepithelial carcinoma

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1051-1056

  Brandal, Petter ^a   Panagopoulos, Ioannis ^b   Bjerkehagen, Bodil ^a   Heim, Sverre ^a,c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 19Q; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWSR1 GENE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPING; LUNG METASTASIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SOFT TISSUE MYOEPITHELIAL CARCINOMA; ZNF444 GENE;

ADULT; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MYOEPITHELIOMA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 70350228507     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20706     Document Type: Article

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