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Expression profile of wild-type ETV6 in childhood acute leukaemia.
British journal of haematology - 1 Jul 2003
Patel Naina, Goff Lindsey K, Clark Taane, Ford Anthony M, Foot Nicola, Lillington Debra, Hing Sandra, Pritchard-Jones Kathy, Jones Louise K, Saha Vaskar
Abstract excerpt
Comparative expression analysis of wild-typeETV6 in the disease state showed an absence of expression in ETV6-CBFA2 acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) when compared with non-ETV6-CBFA2 ALL and acute myeloid leukaemia. Fluorescent in-situ hybridization and loss of heterozygosity studies showed that 73% of the ETV6-CBFA2 samples had a fully or partially deleted second ETV6 allele, explaining the lack of wild-type...
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