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Mutations of the RAS genes in childhood acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome and juvenile chronic myelocytic leukemia.
Leukemia research - 1 Aug 1997
Sheng X M, Kawamura M, Ohnishi H, Ida K, Hanada R, Kojima S, Kobayashi M, Bessho F, Yanagisawa M, Hayashi Y
Abstract excerpt
Using the polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation polymorphism method and direct sequencing, 12 acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell lines and 108 fresh childhood myeloid tumor specimens, including 67 AML, 29 myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and 12 juvenile chronic myelocytic leukemia (JCML) were examined for mutation in H-, K-, and N-RAS genes. The mutation was found in eight of the 120 samples (6.7%),...
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