Article
p53 in chronic myelogenous leukemia in acute phase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Jul 1991
Feinstein E, Cimino G, Gale R P, Alimena G, Berthier R, Kishi K, Goldman J, Zaccaria A, Berrebi A, Canaani E
Abstract excerpt
All patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) undergo clinical transition from chronic to acute phase. This transition is often associated with deletion of the short arm of chromosome 17 in the form of the i(17q) aberration. Since the p53 gene is a suppressor gene and is located on 17p13, we examined the possibility that it is inactivated during progression of CML. Therefore, we studied the structure and...
Topics
- Base Composition
- Base Sequence
- Cell Line
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- Gene Rearrangement
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
