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Genetic variation in the body mass index of adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study and the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort.
Cancer - 15 Jan 2021
Richard Melissa A, Brown Austin L, Belmont John W, Scheurer Michael E, Arroyo Vidal M, Foster Kayla L, Kern Kathleen D, Hudson Melissa M, Leisenring Wendy M, Okcu M Fatih, Sapkota Yadav, Yasui Yutaka, Morton Lindsay M, Chanock Stephen J, Robison Leslie L, Armstrong Gregory T, Bhatia Smita, Oeffinger Kevin C, Lupo Philip J, Kamdar Kala Y
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Treatment characteristics such as cranial radiation therapy (CRT) do not fully explain adiposity risk in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) survivors. This study was aimed at characterizing genetic variation related to adult body mass index (BMI) among survivors of childhood ALL. METHODS: Genetic associations of BMI among 1458 adult survivors of childhood ALL (median time from diagnosis, 20...
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