WT1 overexpression at diagnosis may predict favorable outcome in patients with de novo non-M3 acute myeloid leukemia

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1961-1969

  Miglino, Maurizio ^a   Colombo, Nicoletta ^a   Pica, Gianmatteo ^a   Grasso, Raffaella ^a   Clavio, Marino ^a   Bergamaschi, Micaela ^a   Ballerini, Filippo ^a   Ghiso, Anna ^a   Ghiggi, Chiara ^a   Mitscheunig, Laura ^a   Beltrami, Germana ^a   Cagnetta, Antonia ^a   Vignolo, Luana ^a   Lucchetti, Maria Vita ^a   Aquino, Sara ^a   Pierri, Ivana ^a   Sessarego, Mario ^a   Carella, Angelo Michele ^a   Gobbi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BAALC; De novo AML; FLT3; NPM; WT1

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD135 ANTIGEN; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; MITOXANTRONE; NUCLEOPHOSMIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAALC GENE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DRUG MEGADOSE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; INTERNAL TANDEM DUPLICATION; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOSOMY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; ONCOGENE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WT1 GENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTARABINE; FMS-LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 3; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WT1 PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053185143     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10428194.2011.585673     Document Type: Article

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