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Association of IKZF1 and CDKN2A gene polymorphisms with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a high-resolution melting analysis.
BMC medical genomics - 5 Aug 2022
Sattarzadeh Bardsiri Mahla, Zehtab Shahrzad, Karami Najibe, Farsinejad Alireza, Ehsan Mohsen, Fatemi Ahmad
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most prevailing pediatric hematologic malignancy, and various factors such as environmental exposures and genetic variation affect ALL susceptibility and patients outcome. According to genome-wide association studies, several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in IKZF1 (rs4132601) and CDKN2A (rs3731249 and rs3731217) genes are associated with ALL susceptibility....
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