the human homologue of rat NG2, a chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan, is not expressed on the cell surface of normal hematopoietic cells but is expressed by acute myeloid leukemia blasts from poor-prognosis patients with abnormalities of chromosome band 11q23. - Smith,F.O.; Rauch,C.; Williams,D.E.; March,C.J.; Arthur,D.; Hilden,J.; Lampkin,B.C.; Buckley,J.D.; Buckley,C.V.; Woods,W.G.; Dinndorf,P.A.; Sorensen,P.; et al. (Blood, 1996)