Rare germline variants in ATM are associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Autor: Stacey M. Fernandes, Adam Kiezun, Catherine J. Wu, Samira Bahl, Eric S. Lander, Sandra Robrecht, Atanas Kamburov, Eugen Tausch, Esther Rheinbay, Haesook T. Kim, Dan-Avi Landau, Siddha Kasar, Ma. Reina Improgo, Grace Tiao, Jennifer R. Brown, Weijie Poh, Gad Getz, Kevin Hoang, Jasmin Bahlo, Amaro Taylor-Weiner, Stephan Stilgenbauer, Carrie Cibulskis, Kirsten Fischer, Stacey Gabriel, Michael Hallek
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Leukemia
ISSN: 1476-5551
Popis: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a highly heritable cancer, with a 7.5-fold increased risk in first-degree relatives.1 However, inherited predisposition to CLL remains largely unexplained by traditional linkage or genome-wide association studies. Here, we hypothesized that CLL heritability might arise from rare coding variants not analyzed in previous studies.
Databáze: OpenAIRE