Experimental Hematology
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 824-830 , July 2009

Overexpression of serine threonine tyrosine kinase 1/novel oncogene with kinase domain mRNA in patients with acute leukemia

Received 26 January 2009 ,Revised 9 April 2009 ,Accepted 20 April 2009.

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 Drs. Kondoh and Kobayashi contributed equally to this work.

PII: S0301-472X(09)00136-2

doi: 10.1016/j.exphem.2009.04.010

Experimental Hematology
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 824-830 , July 2009

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