Article
Characterisation of TP53 abnormalities in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
The hematology journal : the official journal of the European Haematology Association - 1 Jan 2004
Thornton Patrick D, Gruszka-Westwood Alicja M, Hamoudi Rifat A, Atkinson Shayne, Kaczmarek Pawel, Morilla Ricardo M, Hilditch Benjamin L, A'Hern Roger, Matutes Estella, Catovsky Daniel
Abstract excerpt
Abnormalities of TP53 in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) correlate with aggressive disease and transformation. We studied 115 patients with CLL including 90 untreated, 25 with heavily pretreated/refractory CLL using fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) to detect allelic loss at chromosome 17p and flow cytometry (FC) to test p53 protein overexpression. A total of 17 cases were identified with TP53 deletion...
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