Discordance of MLL-rearranged (MLL-R) infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia in monozygotic twins with spontaneous clearance of preleukemic clone in unaffected twin

Blood

Volumn 113, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 6691-6694

  Chuk, Meredith K ^a,b   McIntyre, Emily ^b   Small, Donald ^b   Brown, Patrick ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; MLL ENL ONCOPROTEIN, HUMAN; MLL-ENL ONCOPROTEIN, HUMAN; MLLT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CYTOPENIA; DISEASE COURSE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CELL CLONE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUTROPENIA; PATHOLOGY; PRELEUKEMIA; REMISSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE MARROW; CLONE CELLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; MALE; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PRECURSOR B-CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PRELEUKEMIA; REMISSION INDUCTION; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 69249240343     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-01-202259     Document Type: Article

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