The Doublecortin Gene, A New Molecular Marker to Detect Minimal Residual Disease in Neuroblastoma

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Neuroblastoma (NB) is a pediatric cancer of highly variable clinical outcome. Much effort is devoted to detection of minimal residual (MRD) disease through RT-PCR or immunology of tissue-specific markers. Tyrosine hyrdroxylase (TH) has demonstrated a high utility to assess disease dissemination, although this marker can be lost due to clonal variability. Here we propose the use of the doublecortin (DCX) gene as a...

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