Bimodal distribution of genomic MLL breakpoints in infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment

Leukemia

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 903-907

  Jung, R ^a   Jacobs, U ^a   Krumbholz, M ^a   Langer, T ^a   Keller, T ^b   De Lorenzo, P ^c   Valsecchi, M G ^c   Van Der Velden, V H J ^d   Moericke, A ^e   Stanulla, M ^e   Teigler Schlegel, A ^f   Panzer Gruemayer, E R ^g   Van Dongen, J J M ^d   Schrappe, M ^e   Den Boer, M L ^h   Pieters, R ^h   Rascher, W ^a   Metzler, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ACOMED Statistik   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^f JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^h SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE INHIBITOR; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AMPLICON; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; KERNEL METHOD; LETTER; LEUKEMIA CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

EID: 77950934774     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/leu.2010.14     Document Type: Letter

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