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Comment
. 2015 Apr 13;27(4):433-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2015.03.016.

When one mutation is all it takes

Mel Greaves  1
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When one mutation is all it takes

Mel Greaves. Cancer Cell. .
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Abstract

In a recent issue of Nature Genetics, Andersson and colleagues report that MLL fusion alone may be sufficient to spawn an aggressive leukemia in infants. Some other pediatric cancers may share a similar, single, "big-hit" origin, possibly reflecting a critical developmental window of stem cell vulnerability.

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  • The landscape of somatic mutations in infant MLL-rearranged acute lymphoblastic leukemias.
    Andersson AK, Ma J, Wang J, Chen X, Gedman AL, Dang J, Nakitandwe J, Holmfeldt L, Parker M, Easton J, Huether R, Kriwacki R, Rusch M, Wu G, Li Y, Mulder H, Raimondi S, Pounds S, Kang G, Shi L, Becksfort J, Gupta P, Payne-Turner D, Vadodaria B, Boggs K, Yergeau D, Manne J, Song G, Edmonson M, Nagahawatte P, Wei L, Cheng C, Pei D, Sutton R, Venn NC, Chetcuti A, Rush A, Catchpoole D, Heldrup J, Fioretos T, Lu C, Ding L, Pui CH, Shurtleff S, Mullighan CG, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Gruber TA, Zhang J, Downing JR; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital–Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. Andersson AK, et al. Nat Genet. 2015 Apr;47(4):330-7. doi: 10.1038/ng.3230. Epub 2015 Mar 2. Nat Genet. 2015. PMID: 25730765 Free PMC article.

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