Sowing the seeds of leukemia before birth
Each year, ∼200,000 babies worldwide are born with Down syndrome (DS), owing to constitutional trisomy of chromosome 21 (T21) (1). Children with DS have a markedly increased risk of leukemia, particularly in their first 4 years. Almost 60,000 (30%) will harbor within their blood cells damaging, feta...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
2021
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