Microgranular variant of acute promyelocytic leukemia with normal conventional cytogenetics, negative PML/RARA FISH and positive PML/RARA transcripts by RT-PCR

Cancer Genetics

Volumn 204, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 522-523

  Lewis, Catherine ^a   Patel, Vijay ^a   Abhyankar, Sunil ^a   Zhang, Da ^a   Ketterling, Rhett P ^b   McClure, Rebecca F ^b   Persons, Diane L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CD33 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD7 ANTIGEN; CYTARABINE; METHOTREXATE; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; RETINOIC ACID; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PML PROTEIN, HUMAN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER REGRESSION; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA PROBE; DRUG RESPONSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELOBLAST; PML GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; RARA GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 17; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84856005078     PISSN: 22107762     EISSN: 22107770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergen.2011.09.001     Document Type: Letter

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