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Mitochondrial DNA in pediatric leukemia patients.
Acta biochimica Polonica - 1 Jan 2017
Kodroń Agata, Ghanim Magda, Krawczyk Katarzyna K, Stelmaszczyk-Emmel Anna, Tońska Katarzyna, Demkow Urszula, Bartnik Ewa
Abstract excerpt
Numerous studies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in cancer have shown differences between mtDNA sequences in tumor and normal tissue and at various stages of cancer treatment in the same patient. However, there is little data on acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common type of leukemia in children. In this study we compared mitochondrial sequence variation in the D-loop region and in 5 genes of mtDNA in...
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