Synthetic modeling reveals HOXB genes are critical for the initiation and maintenance of human leukemia

Studies with patient derived xenografts are hampered by factors such as genetic variability and sample availability. Here, the authors generate a leukemia mouse model by lentiviral transduction of normal human cord blood and show an oncogenic role of HOXB genes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Manabu Kusakabe, Ann Chong Sun, Kateryna Tyshchenko, Rachel Wong, Aastha Nanda, Claire Shanna, Samuel Gusscott, Elizabeth A. Chavez, Alireza Lorzadeh, Alice Zhu, Ainsleigh Hill, Stacy Hung, Scott Brown, Artem Babaian, Xuehai Wang, Robert A. Holt, Christian Steidl, Aly Karsan, R. Keith Humphries, Connie J. Eaves, Martin Hirst, Andrew P. Weng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10510-8