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MLL-AF9 and FLT3 cooperation in acute myelogenous leukemia: development of a model for rapid therapeutic assessment.
Leukemia - 1 Jan 2008
Stubbs M C, Kim Y M, Krivtsov A V, Wright R D, Feng Z, Agarwal J, Kung A L, Armstrong S A
Abstract excerpt
Human leukemias harboring chromosomal translocations involving the mixed lineage leukemia (MLL, HRX, ALL-1) gene possess high-level expression, and frequent activating mutations of the receptor tyrosine kinase FLT3. We used a murine bone marrow transplant model to assess cooperation between MLL translocation and FLT3 activation. We demonstrate that MLL-AF9 expression induces acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) in...
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