TEL-AML1 in cord blood: 1% or 0.01%?

Blood

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-4

  Brown, Patrick ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; TEL AML1 FUSION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; NEWBORN SCREENING; NOTE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 78650967808     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-09-304337     Document Type: Note

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