Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: where are we going and how do we get there?

CH Pui, CG Mullighan, WE Evans… - Blood, The Journal of …, 2012 - ashpublications.org
Improved supportive care, more precise risk stratification, and personalized chemotherapy
based on the characteristics of leukemic cells and hosts (eg, pharmacokinetics and …

Molecular genetics of B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia

CG Mullighan - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is the most common childhood tumor and
the leading cause of cancer-related death in children and young adults. The majority of B …

The genetic basis of early T-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

J Zhang, L Ding, L Holmfeldt, G Wu, SL Heatley… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Early T-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ETP ALL) is an aggressive
malignancy of unknown genetic basis. We performed whole-genome sequencing of 12 ETP …

Improved survival for children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia between 1990 and 2005: a report from the children's oncology group

SP Hunger, X Lu, M Devidas, BM Camitta… - Journal of clinical …, 2012 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To examine population-based improvements in survival and the impact of clinical
covariates on outcome among children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic alterations activating kinase and cytokine receptor signaling in high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia

KG Roberts, RD Morin, J Zhang, M Hirst, Y Zhao, X Su… - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
Genomic profiling has identified a subtype of high-risk B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic
leukemia (B-ALL) with alteration of IKZF1, a gene expression profile similar to BCR-ABL1 …

BET bromodomain inhibition targets both c-Myc and IL7R in high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia

CJ Ott, N Kopp, L Bird, RM Paranal, J Qi… - Blood, The Journal …, 2012 - ashpublications.org
We investigated the therapeutic potential of JQ1, an inhibitor of the BET class of human
bromodomain proteins, in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). We show that JQ1 …

Targeting JAK1/2 and mTOR in murine xenograft models of Ph-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia

SL Maude, SK Tasian, T Vincent… - Blood, The Journal …, 2012 - ashpublications.org
Abstract CRLF2 rearrangements, JAK1/2 point mutations, and JAK2 fusion genes have been
identified in Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)–like acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a …

The molecular genetic makeup of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

CG Mullighan - Hematology 2010, the American Society of …, 2012 - ashpublications.org
Genomic profiling has transformed our understanding of the genetic basis of acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Recent years have seen a shift from microarray analysis and …

Outcome modeling with CRLF2, IKZF1, JAK, and minimal residual disease in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a Children's Oncology Group Study

IM Chen, RC Harvey, CG Mullighan… - Blood, The Journal …, 2012 - ashpublications.org
As controversy exists regarding the prognostic significance of genomic rearrangements of
CRLF2 in pediatric B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) classified as …

Aberrant STAT5 and PI3K/mTOR pathway signaling occurs in human CRLF2-rearranged B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia

SK Tasian, MY Doral, MJ Borowitz… - Blood, The Journal …, 2012 - ashpublications.org
Adults and children with high-risk CRLF2-rearranged acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
respond poorly to current cytotoxic chemotherapy and suffer unacceptably high rates of …