Detection of PML/RARA rearrangement by reverse transcriptase-PCR and sequencing in a case of microgranular acute promyelocytic leukemia lacking t(15;17) on karyotype and FISH

Korean Journal of Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 379-383

  Kim, Kyung Eun ^a   Woo, Kwang Sook ^a   Kim, Sung Hyun ^a   Han, Jin Yeong ^a  

^a Dong A University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acute promyelocytic leukemia; Cryptic PML RARA rearrangement; PML RARA; RT PCR; Trisomy 8

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA FUSION ONCOPROTEIN; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA-RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA FUSION ONCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 8; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRISOMY;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TRISOMY;

EID: 77949317036     PISSN: 15986535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3343/kjlm.2009.29.5.379     Document Type: Article

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