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SUBMITTER: Yang JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3104508 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature genetics 20110206 3
Although five-year survival rates for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are now over 80% in most industrialized countries, not all children have benefited equally from this progress. Ethnic differences in survival after childhood ALL have been reported in many clinical studies, with poorer survival observed among African Americans or those with Hispanic ethnicity when compared with European Americans or Asians. The causes of ethnic differences remain uncertain, although both genetic a ...[more]