Comprehensive look at rare leukaemia finds relatively few genetic changes launch disease

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 03:52 in Health & Medicine

The most comprehensive analysis yet of the genome of childhood acute myeloid leukaemia (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 27 July online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

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