CEBPA methylation and mutation in myelodysplastic syndrome

Medical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Wen, Xiang mei ^a   Hu, Jia bo ^b   Yang, Jing ^a   Qian, Wei ^a   Yao, Dong ming ^a   Deng, Zhao qun ^a   Zhang, Ying ying ^a   Zhu, Xiao wen ^a   Guo, Hong ^a   Lin, Jiang ^a   Qian, Jun ^a  

^a AFFILIATED PEOPLE S HOSPITAL OF JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CEBPA; Expression; Methylation; Mutation; Myelodysplastic syndrome

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; HEMOGLOBIN; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 1; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 2; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; CEBPA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS; REFRACTORY CYTOPENIA WITH MULTILINEAGE DYSPLASIA; VERY ELDERLY; ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, LEUKEMIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930221926     PISSN: 13570560     EISSN: 1559131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12032-015-0605-z     Document Type: Article

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