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Maternal and offspring xenobiotic metabolism haplotypes and the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Leukemia research - 1 May 2013
Nousome Darryl, Lupo Philip J, Okcu M Fatih, Scheurer Michael E
Abstract excerpt
Discovering genetic predictors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) necessitates the evaluation of novel factors including maternal genetic effects, which are a proxy for the intrauterine environment, and robust epidemiologic study designs. Therefore, we evaluated five maternal and offspring xenobiotic metabolism haplotypes and the risk of childhood ALL among 120 case-parent triads. Two of the five...
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