Satoshi Miyamoto, Kevin Y Urayama, Yuki Arakawa, Katsuyoshi Koh, Yuki Yuza, Daisuke Hasegawa, Yuichi Taneyama, Yasushi Noguchi, Masakatsu Yanagimachi, Takeshi Inukai, Setsuo Ota, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Dai Keino, Daisuke Toyama, Junko Takita, Daisuke Tomizawa, Tomohiro Morio, Kazutoshi Koike, Koichi Moriwaki, Yuya Sato, Junya Fujimura, Daisuke Morita, Yujin Sekinaka, Kozue Nakamura, Kazuo Sakashita, Hiroaki Goto, Atsushi Manabe, Masatoshi Takagi
Germline genetic variants influence development of pediatric B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several pediatric B-ALL susceptibility loci. IKZF1 and PAX5 , transcription factors involved in B cell development, have been reported as susceptibility genes for B-ALL development. Therefore, we hypothesized that rare variants of genes involved in B cell development would be candidate susceptibility loci for pediatric B-ALL. Thus, we sequenced TCF3 , a key transcription factor gene involving in B cell development...
May 2, 2023: Pediatric Hematology and Oncology