Ploidy and clinical characteristics of childhood acute myeloid leukemia: A NOPHO‐AML study

doi:10.1002/gcc.22177

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Ploidy and clinical characteristics of childhood acute myeloid leukemia: A NOPHO‐AML study

18 Apr 2014

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We report the first large series (n = 596) of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) focusing on modal numbers (MN) from the population-based NOPHO-AML trials. Abnormal karyotypes were present in 452 cases (76%) and numerical aberrations were present in 40% (n = 237) of all pediatric AML. Among patients with an abnormal karyotype, the MN 46 was most common (n = 251; 56%) of which 36 (8%) were pseudodiploid with...

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