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Protracted and variable latency of acute lymphoblastic leukemia after TEL-AML1 gene fusion in utero.
Blood - 1 Aug 1999
Wiemels J L, Ford A M, Van Wering E R, Postma A, Greaves M
Abstract excerpt
We report a pair of identical twins with concordant acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Unusually, their diagnoses were spaced 9 years apart at ages 5 and 14. Leukemic cells in both twins had a TEL-AML1 rearrangement, which was characterized at the DNA level by an adaptation of a long distance polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. The genomic fusion sequence was identical in the two leukemias, indicative of a...
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