Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

TJ Kipps, FK Stevenson, CJ Wu, CM Croce… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is a malignancy of CD5+ B cells that is characterized
by the accumulation of small, mature-appearing lymphocytes in the blood, marrow and …

Monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis and early-stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia: diagnosis, natural history, and risk stratification

P Strati, TD Shanafelt - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2015 - ashpublications.org
Monoclonal B lymphocytosis (MBL) is defined as the presence of a clonal B-cell population
in the peripheral blood with fewer than 5× 109/L B-cells and no other signs of a …

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

L Scarfò, AJM Ferreri, P Ghia - Critical reviews in oncology/hematology, 2016 - Elsevier
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is the most common leukaemia among the adults in
the Western World. CLL (and the corresponding nodal entity small lymphocytic lymphoma …

Monogenic and polygenic inheritance become instruments for clonal selection

PR Loh, G Genovese, SA McCarroll - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Clonally expanded blood cells that contain somatic mutations (clonal haematopoiesis) are
commonly acquired with age and increase the risk of blood cancer,,,,,,,–. The blood clones …

Familial predisposition and genetic risk factors for lymphoma

JR Cerhan, SL Slager - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2015 - ashpublications.org
Our understanding of familial predisposition to lymphoma (collectively defined as non-
Hodgkin lymphoma [NHL], Hodgkin lymphoma [HL], and chronic lymphocytic leukemia …

Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

SI Berndt, CF Skibola, V Joseph, NJ Camp, A Nieters… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have previously identified 13 loci associated with
risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL). To identify …

Joint analysis of three genome-wide association studies of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Chinese populations

C Wu, Z Wang, X Song, XS Feng, CC Abnet, J He… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
We conducted a joint (pooled) analysis of three genome-wide association studies (GWAS),,
of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in individuals of Chinese ancestry (5,337 …

Precancer atlas to drive precision prevention trials

A Spira, MB Yurgelun, L Alexandrov, A Rao, R Bejar… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Cancer development is a complex process driven by inherited and acquired molecular and
cellular alterations. Prevention is the holy grail of cancer elimination, but making this a reality …

Epidemiology and etiology of non-hodgkin lymphoma

BCH Chiu, N Hou - Non-Hodgkin lymphoma: pathology, imaging, and …, 2015 - Springer
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) consists of many histologically and biologically distinct
lymphoid malignancies with poorly understood, but possibly distinct, etiologies. The patterns …

Germ line mutations in shelterin complex genes are associated with familial chronic lymphocytic leukemia

HE Speedy, B Kinnersley, D Chubb… - Blood, The Journal …, 2016 - ashpublications.org
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can be familial; however, thus far no rare germ line
disruptive alleles for CLL have been identified. We performed whole-exome sequencing of …