Multiple clonal MLL fusions in a patient receiving CHOP-based chemotherapy

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-57

  Shih, Shyh Jen ^a   Fass, Joseph ^b   Buffalo, Vincent ^b   Lin, Dawei ^b   Singh, Sheetal P ^a,c   Diaz, Manuel O ^d   Vaughan, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation induced cytidine deaminase; C to T transition; Clonal MLL fusion; MLL rearrangement; Therapy related acute myeloid leukamia

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; BETA CATENIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTIDINE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISONE; THYMIDINE; VINCRISTINE; WNT PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; FUSION GENE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CORRELATION; HUMAN; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LEUKEMIA CELL; MLL GENE; MLL MLLT3 FUSION GENE; MLL NKD1 FUSION GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOXORUBICIN; GENE FUSION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PREDNISONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 84866318176     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2012.09248.x     Document Type: Article

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