A tale of two siblings: Two cases of AML arising from a single pre-leukemic DNMT3A mutant clone

Leukemia

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2101-2104

  Hahn, C N ^a,b,c,d   Ross, D M ^a,c,e   Feng, J ^b   Beligaswatte, A ^a,e   Hiwase, D K ^a   Parker, W T ^a,b,d   Ho, M ^a   Zawitkowski, M ^a   Ambler, K L ^a   Cheetham, G D ^a   Lee, Y K ^a   Babic, M ^a   Butcher, C M ^a   Engler, G A ^a   Brown, A L ^a,b,d   D'Andrea, R J ^a,b,d   Lewis, I D ^a,c   Schreiber, A W ^b,c   To, L B ^a,c   Scott, H S ^a,b,c,d  

^a SA Pathology ^*  (Australia)

^b CENTRE FOR CANCER BIOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; CANCER PATIENT; CLONE; DNMT3A GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERMLINE MUTATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MUTANT; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SOMATIC MUTATION; ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CASE REPORT; GENETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PRELEUKEMIA; PROGNOSIS;

DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PRELEUKEMIA; PROGNOSIS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 84943587194     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/leu.2015.67     Document Type: Letter

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