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Number 11 November 2020 Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology Volume 1 - Number 1 May - September 1997 Volume 24 - Number 11 November 2020 Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL INIST-CNRS Scope The Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology is a peer reviewed on-line journal in open access, devoted to genes, cytogenetics, and clinical entities in cancer, and cancer-prone diseases. It is made for and by: clinicians and researchers in cytogenetics, molecular biology, oncology, haematology, and pathology. One main scope of the Atlas is to conjugate the scientific information provided by cytogenetics/molecular genetics to the clinical setting (diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutic design), another is to provide an encyclopedic knowledge in cancer genetics. The Atlas deals with cancer research and genomics. It is at the crossroads of research, virtual medical university (university and post-university e-learning), and telemedicine. It contributes to "meta-medicine", this mediation, using information technology, between the increasing amount of knowledge and the individual, having to use the information. Towards a personalized medicine of cancer. It presents structured review articles ("cards") on: 1- Genes, 2- Leukemias, 3- Solid tumors, 4- Cancer-prone diseases, and also 5- "Deep insights": more traditional review articles on the above subjects and on surrounding topics. It also present 6- Case reports in hematology and 7- Educational items in the various related topics for students in Medicine and in Sciences. The Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology does not publish research articles. See also: http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/56067/Scope.pdf Editorial correspondance Jean-Loup Huret, MD, PhD, [email protected] Editor, Editorial Board and Publisher See:http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/48485/Editor-editorial-board-and-publisher.pdf The Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology is published 12 times a year by ARMGHM, a non profit organisation, and by the INstitute for Scientific and Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research (INIST-CNRS) since 2008. The Atlas is hosted by INIST-CNRS (http://www.inist.fr) Staff: Vanessa Le Berre Philippe Dessen is the Database Directorof the on-line version (Gustave Roussy Institute – Villejuif – France). Publisher Contact: INIST-CNRS Mailing Address: Catherine Morel, 2,Allée du Parc de Brabois, CS 10130, 54519 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy France. Email Address:[email protected] Articles of the ATLAS are free in PDF format, and metadata are available on the web in Dublin Core XML format and freely harvestable.A Digital object identifier (DOI®), recorded at the International Agency CrossRefhttp://www.crossref.org/ is assigned to each article. http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org © ATLAS - ISSN 1768-3262 The PDF version of the Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology is a reissue of the original articles published in collaboration with the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INstitut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique - INIST) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) on its electronic publishing platform I-Revues. Online and PDF versions of the Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology are hosted by INIST-CNRS. Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL INIST-CNRS Editors-in-Chief Jesús María Hernández Rivas (Salamanca, Spain) Paola Dal Cin (Boston, Massachusetts) Jean-Loup Huret (Poitiers, France) Hematology Section Editor Ana E. Rodríguez, Teresa Gonzalez (Salamanca, Spain) Bone Tumors Section Editor Judith Bovee (Leiden, Netherlands) Head and Neck Tumors Section Editor Cécile Badoual (Paris, France) Urinary Tumors Section Editor Paola Dal Cin (Boston, Massachusetts) Pediatric Tumors Section Editor Frederic G. Barr (Bethesda, Maryland) Cancer Prone Diseases Section Editor Gaia Roversi (Milano, Italy) Cell Cycle Section Editor João Agostinho Machado-Neto (São Paulo, Brazil) DNA Repair Section Editor Godefridus Peters (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Epigenetics Section Editor Roberto Piergentili (Rome, Italy) Hematopoeisis Section Editor Olga Weinberg (Boston, Massachusetts) Hormones and Growth factors Section Editor Gajanan V. Sherbet (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) Mitosis Section Editor Patrizia Lavia (Rome, Italy) Oxidative stress Section Editor Thierry Soussi (Stockholm, Sweden/Paris, France) WNT pathway Section Editor Alessandro Beghini (Milano, Italy) B-cell activation Section Editors Anette Gjörloff Wingren, Barnabas Nyesiga (Malmö, Sweden) Board Members Sreeparna Banerjee Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; [email protected] Alessandro Beghini Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Italy; [email protected] Judith Bovée 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; [email protected] Antonio Cuneo Dipartimento di ScienzeMediche, Sezione di Ematologia e Reumatologia Via Aldo Moro 8, 44124 - Ferrara, Italy; [email protected] Paola Dal Cin Department of Pathology, Brigham, Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA; [email protected] IRBA, Departement Effets Biologiques des Rayonnements, Laboratoire de Dosimetrie Biologique des Irradiations, Dewoitine C212, 91223 François Desangles Bretigny-sur-Orge, France; [email protected] Molecular and Population Genetics Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Dr. Oxford, OX37BN, UK Enric Domingo [email protected] Ayse Elif Erson- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; [email protected] Bensan Ad Geurts van Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Kessel The Netherlands; [email protected] Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, St. Anna Children's Hospital, Medical University Vienna, Children's Cancer Research Oskar A. Haas Institute Vienna, Vienna, Austria. [email protected] Anne Hagemeijer Center for Human Genetics, University Hospital Leuven and KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; [email protected] Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, 129 Hamilton Hall, 1645 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Nyla Heerema [email protected] Sakari Knuutila Hartmann Institute and HUSLab, University of Helsinki, Department of Pathology, Helsinki, Finland; [email protected] Lidia Larizza Lab Centro di Ricerche e TecnologieBiomedicheIRCCS-IstitutoAuxologico Italiano Milano, Italy; l.larizza@auxologico Department of Human, Animal Cell Lines, Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms, Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Roderick Mc Leod Germany; [email protected] Cristina Mecucci Hematology University of Perugia, University Hospital S.Mariadella Misericordia, Perugia, Italy; [email protected] Department of Clinical Genetics, University and Regional Laboratories, Lund University, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden; Fredrik Mertens [email protected] Konstantin Miller Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, 30623 Hannover, Germany; [email protected] Department of Clinical Genetics, University and Regional Laboratories, Lund University, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden; Felix Mitelman [email protected] Hossain Mossafa Laboratoire CERBA, 95066 Cergy-Pontoise cedex 9, France; [email protected] Department of Human, Animal Cell Lines, Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms, Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Stefan Nagel Germany; [email protected] Florence Pedeutour Laboratory of Solid Tumors Genetics, Nice University Hospital, CNRSUMR 7284/INSERMU1081, France; [email protected] Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Mail Stop 250, Memphis, Tennessee 38105- Susana Raimondi 3678, USA; [email protected] Clelia Tiziana Department of Biology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy; [email protected] Storlazzi Sabine Strehl CCRI, Children's Cancer Research Institute, St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschunge.V., Vienna, Austria; [email protected] Nancy Uhrhammer Laboratoire Diagnostic Génétique et Moléculaire, Centre Jean Perrin, Clermont-Ferrand, France; [email protected] Dan L. Van Dyke Mayo Clinic Cytogenetics Laboratory, 200 First St SW, Rochester MN 55905, USA; [email protected] Roberta Vanni Universita di Cagliari, Dipartimento di ScienzeBiomediche(DiSB), CittadellaUniversitaria, 09042 Monserrato (CA) - Italy; [email protected] Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. 2020; 24(11) Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL INIST-CNRS Volume 24, Number 11, November 2020 Table of contents Gene Section EEF1E1 (eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 epsilon 1) 387 Luigi Cristiano RARA (Retinoic acid receptor, alpha) 396 Franck Viguié TNIK (TRAF2 and NCK interacting kinase) 408 Adriana Cassaro TPH1 (tryptophan hydroxylase 1) 414 Rafig Gurbanov, Sevinç Karaçam XIAP (X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis) 424 Catarina Sofia Reis Silva, Gabriel Henrique Barbosa, Paola Cristina Branco, Paula Christine Jimenez, João Agostinho Machado-Neto, Letícia Veras Costa-Lotufo Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL INIST-CNRS Gene Section Review EEF1E1 (eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 epsilon 1)
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