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Genetic variants in ARID5B and CEBPE are childhood ALL susceptibility loci in Hispanics.
Cancer causes & control : CCC - 1 Oct 2013
Chokkalingam Anand P, Hsu Ling-I, Metayer Catherine, Hansen Helen M, Month Stacy R, Barcellos Lisa F, Wiemels Joseph L, Buffler Patricia A
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Recent genome-wide studies conducted in European Whites have identified novel susceptibility genes for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We sought to examine whether these loci are susceptibility genes among Hispanics, whose reported incidence of childhood ALL is the highest of all ethnic groups in California, and whether their effects differ between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). We...
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