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multi-OMICs study of a pair of infant monozygotic twins with concordant B-cell ALL

B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-cell ALL) is the most common cancer in childhood. Studying identical twins with B-cell ALL provides a unique and tractable model for deciphering the developmental timing of pre- and post-natal mutations contributing to clonal evolution. To date, this has mainly focused on major cytogenetic subgroups of childhood B-cell ALL, including MLL fusions, ETV6-RUNX1, hyperdiploidy, and BCR-ABL1. However, formal demonstration of the prenatal origin and “backtracking” the natural history of the leukemia remains understudied in “B-other”/Normal Karyotype (NK) B-cell ALL. To characterize the genetic and the epigenetic landscape of this particular leukemia subtype, we performed whole genome DNA-, B-cell receptor (BCR)-, and DNA bisulfite-sequencing on a pair of 8-month-old monozygotic twins diagnosed with concordant “B-other”/NK B-cell ALL.

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Dataset ID Description Technology Samples
EGAD00001005017 HiSeq X Ten 4
EGAD00001005018 HiSeq X Ten 2
Publications Citations
Natural history and cell of origin of <i>TC</i> <i>F3</i>-<i>ZN</i> <i>F384</i> and <i>PTPN11</i> mutations in monozygotic twins with concordant BCP-ALL.
Blood 134: 2019 900-905
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