New Chromosomal Abnormality Identified in Leukemia Associated with Dow...(Other authors of this paper include J. R...),Health

Date:10/18/2009

>Other authors of this paper include J. Racquel Collins-Underwood, Letha A.A. Phillips, Wei Liu, Jing Ma, Elaine Coustan-Smith, Richard T. Williams, Jinjun Cheng, Ching-Hon Pui, Susana Raimondi and James Downing, all of St. Jude; Michael L. Loudin of Baylor; Jinghui Zhang of the National Cancer Institute (NCI); Richard Harvey and Cheryl Willman, of the University of New Mexico; Fady Mikhail and Andrew Carroll, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham; Nyla Heerema of Ohio State University; Giuseppe Basso, of the University of Padua, Padua, Italy; and Andrea Pession of the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

The work was supported in part by National Cancer Institute, the Bear Necessities Pediatric Research Foundation, the Children's Cancer Research Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and ALSAC.

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