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Clonal conversion of B lymphoid leukemia reveals cross-lineage transfer of malignant states.
Genes & development - 15 Nov 2016
Somasundaram Rajesh, Åhsberg Josefine, Okuyama Kazuki, Ungerbäck Jonas, Lilljebjörn Henrik, Fioretos Thoas, Strid Tobias, Sigvardsson Mikael
Abstract excerpt
Even though leukemia is considered to be confined to one specific hematopoietic cell type, cases of acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage and patients relapsing in phenotypically altered disease suggest that a malignant state may be transferred between lineages. Because B-cell leukemia is associated with mutations in transcription factors of importance for stable preservation of lineage identity, we here...
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