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Mutation characterization in the GATA-1 gene in patients with Down's Syndrome diagnosed with transient abnormal myelopoiesis or acute megakaryoblastic leukemia.
Archivos argentinos de pediatria - 1 Dec 2013
Mansini Adrián P, Rubio Patricia L, Rossi Jorge G, Gallego Marta S, Medina Adriana, Zubizarreta Pedro A, Felice María S, Alonso Cristina N
Abstract excerpt
Patients with Down's Syndrome have a higher risk of developing acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AML). Ten per cent of newborn infants with this syndrome have transient abnormal myelopoiesis (TAM), indistinguishable from AML, which generally remits spontaneously. A high incidence of GATA-1 gene mutations was described in both groups of patients. Fourteen bone marrow DNA samples (10 ATM/4 AML) were analyzed by PCR...
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