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Functional differences between myeloid leukemia-initiating and transient leukemia cells in Down's syndrome.
Leukemia - 1 May 2010
Chen J, Li Y, Doedens M, Wang P, Shago M, Dick J E, Dick J, Hitzler J K
Abstract excerpt
Children with constitutional trisomy 21 or Down's syndrome (DS) are predisposed to develop myeloid leukemia (ML) at a young age. DS-ML is frequently preceded by transient leukemia (TL), a spontaneously resolving accumulation of blasts during the newborn period. Somatic mutations of GATA1 in the blasts of TL and DS-ML likely function as an initiating event. We hypothesized that the phenotypic difference between TL...
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