Article
Familial leukemia.
Best practice & research. Clinical haematology - 1 Jan 2006
Benson Kathleen F, Horwitz Marshall
Abstract excerpt
Identification of genes responsible for rare familial cases of cancer provides genetic and biochemical insight into the mechanisms of carcinogenesis at work in the more common, sporadic occurrences of the corresponding malignancy. Hematopoietic malignancy is no exception, and considerable evidence substantiates the role of genetic factors in the risk for leukemia. In a few instances, leukemia runs in families as...
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