Article
Structural alterations at the putative retinoblastoma locus in some human leukemias and preleukemia.
Cancer genetics and cytogenetics - 1 Oct 1990
Hansen M F, Morgan R, Sandberg A A, Cavenee W K
Abstract excerpt
Homozygous loss of alleles of the retinoblastoma susceptibility locus (RB1) has been implicated in the onset of many different solid tumors. Heterozygous deletions of chromosome 13q14, the region containing the RB1 locus, have been observed by us in several subvariants of leukemia and preleukemia...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Alleles
- Child
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Karyotyping
- Leukemia
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
