Comprehensive look at rare leukemia finds relatively few genetic changes launch disease
Monday, July 27, 2009 - 17:42
in Health & Medicine
The most comprehensive analysis yet of the genome of childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML) found only a few mistakes in the genetic blueprint, suggesting the cancer arises from just a handful of missteps, according to new findings from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The research appears in the July 27 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.