Copy Number Alterations Associated with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Mexican Children. A report from The Mexican Inter-Institutional Group for the identification of the causes of childhood leukemia

B-cell precursor acute lymphocytic leukemia (B-ALL) represents a worldwide public health issue. Particularly, Mexico is one of the countries with the highest incidence of ALL in children. Between the multiple factors involved in ALL etiology, genetic alterations are clearly one of the most relevant features. In this work, a group of 24 B-ALL patients, all negative for the four most frequent gene fusions (ETV6-RUNX1, BCR-ABL1, TCF3-PBX1 and MLL-AF4), were included in a high-resolution microarray analysis in order to evaluate genomic copy-number alterations (CNAs).

Source: Archives of Medical Research - November 1, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Beatriz Rosales-Rodr íguez, Fernando Fernández-Ramírez, Juan Carlos Núñez-Enríquez, Ana Claudia Velázquez-Wong, Aurora Medina-Sansón, Elva Jiménez-Hernández, Janet Flores-Lujano, José Gabriel Peñaloza-González, Rosa Martha Espinosa-Elizondo, Tags: Preliminary Report Source Type: research