Identification of PML–RARA rearrangement
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Jin-Yeong Han; Kyong-Eun Kim; Kyeong-Hee Kim; Joo-In Park; Jae-Seok Kim
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is characterized by a reciprocal translocation, t(15;17) (q22;q12), resulting in fusion of the genes promyelocytic leukemia (PML) and retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARA). With conventional cytogenetic methods, these translocations are detected in about 70-90% of pa