"Myeloid" Mutations in ALL Are Not Uncommon: Implications for Etiology and Therapies.

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SUMMARY: In Blood Cancer Discovery, Saygin and colleagues report that somatic variants that are recurrent in myeloid malignancies can also occur with high frequency (16%) in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) where they correlate with older age, diagnosis following genotoxic therapy for a prior malignancy and worse outcome to chemotherapy. Mutations in these "myeloid" genes can precede ALL diagnosis and...

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