Monitoring CML patients responding to treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors: review and recommendations for harmonizing current methodology for detecting BCR-ABL transcripts and kinase domain mutations and for expressing results.

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Published in Blood on March 07, 2006

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Timothy Hughes1, Michael Deininger, Andreas Hochhaus, Susan Branford, Jerald Radich, Jaspal Kaeda, Michele Baccarani, Jorge Cortes, Nicholas C P Cross, Brian J Druker, Jean Gabert, David Grimwade, Rüdiger Hehlmann, Suzanne Kamel-Reid, Jeffrey H Lipton, Janina Longtine, Giovanni Martinelli, Giuseppe Saglio, Simona Soverini, Wendy Stock, John M Goldman

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1: Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia.

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