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A RAG driver on the road to pediatric ALL.
Nature genetics - 1 Feb 2014
Kuiper Roland P, Waanders Esmé
Abstract excerpt
Genomic aberrations affecting genes in B cell differentiation are hallmarks of B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). A new whole-genome sequencing study of ETV6-RUNX1-positive ALL has now identified RAG-mediated recombination, which specifically targets genes and regulatory elements active during B cell differentiation, as the underlying mechanism.
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