The genetics and molecular biology of T-ALL

Blood

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1113-1123

  Girardi, Tiziana ^a,b   Vicente, Carmen ^a,b,c   Cools, Jan ^a,b,c   De Keersmaecker, Kim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Universiteit   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JANUS KINASE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; ECTOPIC EXPRESSION; EPIGENETICS; FUSION GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION RATE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; RNA TRANSLATION; T CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA CELL; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA;

HUMANS; PRECURSOR T-CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA;

EID: 85014888049     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-10-706465     Document Type: Review

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