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Accurate prediction of the age incidence of chronic myeloid leukemia with an improved two-mutation mathematical model.
Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro - 5 Dec 2016
Lecca Paola, Sorio Claudio
Abstract excerpt
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a malignant clonal disorder whose hallmark is a reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22 occurring in 95% of affected patients. This translocation causes the expression of a deregulated BCR/ABL fusion oncogene and, interestingly, is detectable in healthy individuals. Based on this information we assumed that the sole presence of the BCR/ABL transcript represents a...
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