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A two-stage model for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: application to hereditary and nonhereditary leukemogenesis.
Mathematical biosciences - 1 Jan 1997
Wheldon E G, Lindsay K A, Wheldon T E, Mao J H
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A differential equation model is developed to represent a two-stage mutational process leading to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Leukemogenesis is modeled as transformation of target stem cells that initially grow rapidly in the embryo but plateau and then decline in postnatal childhood. Inheritance of the first of two leukemogenic mutations is allowed as a possibility in a small minority of...
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