High prevalence of CIC fusion with double-homeobox (DUX4) transcription factors in EWSR1-negative undifferentiated small blue round cell sarcomas

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 207-218

  Italiano, Antoine ^a,b   Sung, Yun Shao ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Singer, Samuel ^a   Maki, Robert G ^c   Coindre, Jean Michel ^b   Antonescu, Cristina R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUT BERGONIÉ   (France)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DUX4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CHROMOSOME 10Q; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIMITIVE ROUND CELL SARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA; SCREENING; SMALL BLUE ROUND CELL SARCOMA; SMALL BLUE ROUND CELL TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENE FUSION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN FUS; SARCOMA, SMALL CELL; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 84855511411     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20945     Document Type: Article

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