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Evidence for a single‐step mechanism in the origin of hyperdiploid childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
7 Jun 2005
Abstract excerpt
High hyperdiploidy (>50 chromosomes) in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is characterized by nonrandom multiple trisomies and tetrasomies involving in particular chromosomes X, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, and 21. This characteristic karyotypic pattern, the most common in pediatric ALL, may arise via a tetraploid state with subsequent loss of chromosomes, by sequential gains of chromosomes in consecutive...
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