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A Heritable Missense Polymorphism in CDKN2A Confers Strong Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Is Preferentially Selected during Clonal Evolution.
Cancer research - 15 Nov 2015
Walsh Kyle M, de Smith Adam J, Hansen Helen M, Smirnov Ivan V, Gonseth Semira, Endicott Alyson A, Xiao Jianqiao, Rice Terri, Fu Cecilia H, McCoy Lucie S, Lachance Daniel H, Eckel-Passow Jeanette E, Wiencke John K, Jenkins Robert B, Wrensch Margaret R, Ma Xiaomei, Metayer Catherine, Wiemels Joseph L
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified SNPs in six genes that are associated with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). A lead SNP was found to occur on chromosome 9p21.3, a region that is deleted in 30% of childhood ALLs, suggesting the presence of causal polymorphisms linked to ALL risk. We used SNP genotyping and imputation-based fine-mapping of a multiethnic ALL case-control population...
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