Article
Hematopoietic mosaic chromosomal alterations and risk for infection among 767,891 individuals without blood cancer
2020-11-16
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Age is the dominant risk factor for infectious diseases, but the mechanisms linking the two are incompletely understood1,2. Age-related mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) detected from blood-derived DNA genotyping, are structural somatic variants associated with aberrant leukocyte cell counts, hematological malignancy, and mortality3-11. Whether mCAs represent independent risk factor...
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- Literature Corpus work
- af9a0b0a-f39f-51e3-b979-d3f9a7b6fea6
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-100817/v1
