The t(7;11)(p15;p15) translocation in acute myeloid leukaemia fuses the genes for nucleoporin NUP98 and class I homeoprotein HOXA9

Nature Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 159-167

  Borrow, Julian ^a   Shearman, Amanda M ^a   Stanton Jr , Vincent P ^a   Becher, Reinhard ^b   Collins, Tucker ^c   Williams, Amy J ^c   Dubé, Ian ^d   Katz, Fay ^e   Kwong, Yok L ^f   Morris, Christine ^g   Ohyashiki, Kazuma ^h   Toyama, Keisuke ^h   Rowley, Janet ⁱ   Housman, David E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^h TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEOPORIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 15P; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 7; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LEUKEMOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, ACUTE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 9044249724     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0296-159     Document Type: Article

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