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Saturday, 23 March 2013

Inherited Genetic Variations in Childhood Leukemia Have a Major Impact

There are nearly 20,000 to 25,000 genes in humans that carry instructions for assembling the proteins that do the work of cells. Work led by St. Jude Children''s Research Hospital found that children who inherit certain variations in four particular genes are at much higher risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The study also showed that Hispanic patients were more likely than patients of European or African ancestry to inherit high-risk ...

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