A Melanoma Brain Metastasis with a Donor-Patient Hybrid Genome following Bone Marrow Transplantation: First Evidence for Fusion in Human Cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Lazova, Rossitza ^a,b   LaBerge, Greggory S ^c,d   Duvall, Eric ^d   Spoelstra, Nicole ^c   Klump, Vincent ^a   Sznol, Mario ^a,b   Cooper, Dennis ^a,b   Spritz, Richard A ^c   Chang, Joseph T ^e   Pawelek, John M ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d City of Denver Police Department   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

AGED; ALLELE; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; CELL FUSION; CELL ISOLATION; CLONAL VARIATION; DONOR; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRID GENE; LASER MICRODISSECTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METASTATIC MELANOMA; SEX CHROMOSOME; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; TUMOR CELL; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MELANOMA; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SECONDARY; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALIA;

AGED; BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL FUSION; FORENSIC GENETICS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MALE; MELANOMA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84879469812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066731     Document Type: Article

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