Kevin Y Urayama, Masatoshi Takagi, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Keitaro Matsuo, Yoichi Tanaka, Yoko Ayukawa, Yuki Arakawa, Daisuke Hasegawa, Yuki Yuza, Takashi Kaneko, Yasushi Noguchi, Yuichi Taneyama, Setsuo Ota, Takeshi Inukai, Masakatsu Yanagimachi, Dai Keino, Kazutoshi Koike, Daisuke Toyama, Yozo Nakazawa, Hidemitsu Kurosawa, Kozue Nakamura, Koichi Moriwaki, Hiroaki Goto, Yujin Sekinaka, Daisuke Morita, Motohiro Kato, Junko Takita, Toshihiro Tanaka, Johji Inazawa, Katsuyoshi Koh, Yasushi Ishida, Akira Ohara, Shuki Mizutani, Fumihiko Matsuda, Atsushi Manabe
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) performed mostly in populations of European and Hispanic ancestry have confirmed an inherited genetic basis for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but these associations are less clear in other races/ethnicities. DNA samples from ALL patients (aged 0-19 years) previously enrolled onto a Tokyo Children's Cancer Study Group trial were collected during 2013-2015, and underwent single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarray genotyping resulting in 527 B-cell ALL for analysis...
January 15, 2018: Scientific Reports