Article
Familial leukemias.
Current treatment options in oncology - 1 Feb 2015
Wiernik Peter H
Abstract excerpt
Familial leukemia has been described for more than 50 years but only recently have modern genetic techniques allowed for the investigation of the genome. Genome-wide association studies have identified a number of genetic sites that appear to relate to susceptibility to leukemia in certain families and occasionally to susceptibility to a specific leukemia in general. Many questions remain, including...
Topics
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
- Breast Neoplasms
- Disease Progression
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Incidence
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
- Molecular Targeted Therapy
- Pedigree