FLT3 mutations in early T-cell precursor ALL characterize a stem cell like leukemia and imply the clinical use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Early T-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ETP-ALL) has been identified as high-risk subgroup of acute T-lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) with a high rate of FLT3-mutations in adults. To unravel the underlying pathomechanisms and the clinical course we assessed molecular alterations and clin...

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Main Authors: Martin Neumann, Ebru Coskun, Lars Fransecky, Liliana H Mochmann, Isabelle Bartram, Nasrin Farhadi Sartangi, Sandra Heesch, Nicola Gökbuget, Stefan Schwartz, Christian Brandts, Cornelia Schlee, Rainer Haas, Ulrich Dührsen, Martin Griesshammer, Hartmut Döhner, Gerhard Ehninger, Thomas Burmeister, Olga Blau, Eckhard Thiel, Dieter Hoelzer, Wolf-Karsten Hofmann, Claudia D Baldus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3554732?pdf=render