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Pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Feb 2017
Karrman Kristina, Johansson Bertil
Abstract excerpt
The most common pediatric malignancy is acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), of which T-cell ALL (T-ALL) comprises 10-15% of cases. T-ALL arises in the thymus from an immature thymocyte as a consequence of a stepwise accumulation of genetic and epigenetic aberrations. Crucial biological processes, such as differentiation, self-renewal capacity, proliferation, and apoptosis, are targeted and deranged by several...
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