Fusion of the nucleoporin gene NUP98 to HOXA9 by the chromosome translocation t(7;11)(p15;p15) in human myeloid leukaemia

Nature Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 154-158

  Nakamura, Takuro ^a   Largaespada, David A ^a   Lee, Maxwell P ^b   Johnson, Laura A ^b   Ohyashiki, Kazuma ^c   Toyama, Keisuke ^c   Chen, Sai Juan ^d   Willman, Cheryl L ^e   Chen, I Ming ^e   Feinberg, Andrew P ^b   Jenkins, Nancy A ^a   Copeland, Neal G ^a   Shaughnessy Jr , John D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEOPORIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 11P; CHROMOSOME 15P; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 7; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUSION; GENE MAPPING; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 9044241254     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0296-154     Document Type: Article

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