Multigenetic lesions in infant acute leukaemias: Correlations with ALL-1 gene status

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 308-313

  Cimino, Giuseppe ^a   Lanza, Carlo ^b   Elia, Loredana ^a   Lo Coco, Francesco ^a   Gaidano, Gianluca ^b   Biondi, Andrea ^c   Pastore, Cristina ^b   Serra, Anna ^b   Canaani, Eli ^d   Croce, Carlo Maria ^e   Mandelli, Franco ^a   Saglio, Giuseppe ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAN LUIGI GONZAGA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

ALL 1; infant acute leukaemias; p16; p53

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P53;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 8044242351     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1997.d01-2044.x     Document Type: Article

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