Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

F Malard, M Mohty - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia develops in both children and adults, with a peak incidence
between 1 year and 4 years. Most acute lymphoblastic leukaemia arises in healthy …

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children

SP Hunger, CG Mullighan - New England Journal of Medicine, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
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Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor

SMA Islam, M Díaz-Gay, Y Wu, M Barnes, R Vangara… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Mutational signature analysis is commonly performed in cancer genomic studies. Here, we
present SigProfilerExtractor, an automated tool for de novo extraction of mutational …

Maintenance therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia: basic science and clinical translations

LN Toksvang, SHR Lee, JJ Yang, K Schmiegelow - Leukemia, 2022 - nature.com
Maintenance therapy (MT) with oral methotrexate (MTX) and 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) is
essential for the cure of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). MTX and 6-MP interfere with …

Genetic basis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

I Iacobucci, CG Mullighan - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer, and despite cure
rates exceeding 90% in children, it remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in …

Therapy-induced mutations drive the genomic landscape of relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia

B Li, SW Brady, X Ma, S Shen, Y Zhang… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
To study the mechanisms of relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), we performed
whole-genome sequencing of 103 diagnosis-relapse-germline trios and ultra-deep …

Tumour heterogeneity and cancer cell plasticity

CE Meacham, SJ Morrison - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity arise among cancer cells within the same tumour
as a consequence of genetic change, environmental differences and reversible changes in …

The genetics and mechanisms of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

L Belver, A Ferrando - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive haematological malignancy
derived from early T cell progenitors. In recent years genomic and transcriptomic studies …

NUDT15 polymorphisms alter thiopurine metabolism and hematopoietic toxicity

T Moriyama, R Nishii, V Perez-Andreu, W Yang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Widely used as anticancer and immunosuppressive agents, thiopurines have narrow
therapeutic indices owing to frequent toxicities, partly explained by TPMT genetic …

Metabolism, biochemical actions, and chemical synthesis of anticancer nucleosides, nucleotides, and base analogs

J Shelton, X Lu, JA Hollenbaugh, JH Cho… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nucleoside, nucleotide, and base analogs have been in the clinic for decades to treat both
viral pathogens and neoplasms. More than 20% of patients on anticancer chemotherapy …