THE APPLICATION OF REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR IN THE DIAGNOSTICS OF CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA

CML is a cancer of the white blood cells and it effects on average one individual in every 100,000. Since it was first described in 1845 by John Hughes Bennett and the subsequent discovery of the Philadelphia chromosome by Nowell and Hungerford in 1960, this hematopoietic malignancy has received muc...

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Main Author: van Deventer, Jacob Jacobus
Other Authors: Prof VJ Louw
Format: Others
Language:en-uk
Published: University of the Free State 2009
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Online Access:http://etd.uovs.ac.za//theses/available/etd-10302009-090817/restricted/