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Genomics in childhood acute myeloid leukemia comes of age

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A Children's Oncology Group study of nearly 1,000 pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cases reveals marked differences between the genomic landscapes of pediatric and adult AML and offers directions for future work.

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Figure 1: Relative frequency of common mutations in pediatric and adult AML.

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Brunner, A., Graubert, T. Genomics in childhood acute myeloid leukemia comes of age. Nat Med 24, 7–9 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.4469

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