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SUBMITTER: Powell BC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3926299 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Powell Bradford C BC Jiang Lichun L Muzny Donna M DM Treviño Lisa R LR Dreyer Zoann E ZE Strong Louise C LC Wheeler David A DA Gibbs Richard A RA Plon Sharon E SE
Pediatric blood & cancer 20121219 6
Although acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer, genetic predisposition to ALL remains poorly understood. Whole-exome sequencing was performed in an extended kindred in which five individuals had been diagnosed with leukemia. Analysis revealed a nonsense variant of TP53 which has been previously reported in families with sarcomas and other typical Li Fraumeni syndrome-associated cancers but never in a familial leukemia kindred. This unexpected finding enabled identi ...[more]