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Identification of four novel associations for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia risk
oleh: Jayaram Vijayakrishnan, Maoxiang Qian, James B. Studd, Wenjian Yang, Ben Kinnersley, Philip J. Law, Peter Broderick, Elizabeth A. Raetz, James Allan, Ching-Hon Pui, Ajay Vora, William E. Evans, Anthony Moorman, Allen Yeoh, Wentao Yang, Chunliang Li, Claus R. Bartram, Charles G. Mullighan, Martin Zimmerman, Stephen P. Hunger, Martin Schrappe, Mary V. Relling, Martin Stanulla, Mignon L. Loh, Richard S. Houlston, Jun J. Yang
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Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2019-11-01 |
Deskripsi
B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL) is a common childhood cancer. Here, the authors conducted a meta-analysis with four genome-wide association studies, totalling 5,321 cases and 16,666 controls of European descent, identifying B-ALL risk loci, whose integration with epigenomic profiling indicates cell-cycle and B-cell development deregulation as central mechanisms in B-ALL susceptibility, often in a subtype-specific fashion.