Article
Variability of EWS chimaeric transcripts in Ewing tumours: a comparison of clinical and molecular data.
British journal of cancer - 1 Nov 1994
Zoubek A, Pfleiderer C, Salzer-Kuntschik M, Amann G, Windhager R, Fink F M, Koscielniak E, Delattre O, Strehl S, Ambros P F
Abstract excerpt
Ewing tumours (ET), including Ewing's sarcoma and peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour, are well characterised at the molecular level by a unique chromosomal rearrangement which fuses the EWS gene to one of two closely related ETS proto-oncogenes, FLI-1 or ERG. Expression of the resulting...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Chimera
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22
- Exons
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Karyotyping
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
