Research
We are driving the Pediatrics Precision Medicine Initiative for the Department of Pediatrics, and support clinical translational research for the Center for Heme Malignancies at MSK.
We benefit from a fully resourced computational and research environment. We have access to state-of-the-art computing and laboratory facilities to support truly ambitious and innovative research.
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      Tumor-Infiltrating Clonal Hematopoiesis
    
    
    
      New England Journal of Medicine
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      24 Apr 2025
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      doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2413361
    
    
      
      
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Molecular taxonomy of myelodysplastic syndromes and its clinical implications
    
    
    
      Blood
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      10 Oct 2024
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      doi:10.1182/blood.2023023727
    
    
      
      
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Clonal evolution during metastatic spread in high-risk neuroblastoma
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      11 May 2023
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      doi:10.1038/s41588-023-01395-x
    
    
      
      
        
      
      
        
  
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Unified classification and risk-stratification in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
    
    
    
      Nature Communications
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      08 Aug 2022
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      doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32103-8
    
    
      
      
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Molecular International Prognostic Scoring System for Myelodysplastic Syndromes
    
    
    
      NEJM Evidence
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      28 Jun 2022
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      doi:10.1056/EVIDoa2200008
    
    
      
      
        
      
      
        
  
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Feasibility of whole genome and transcriptome profiling in pediatric and young adult cancers
    
    
    
      Nature Communications
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      18 May 2022
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      doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30233-7
    
    
      
      
      
        
  
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Isabl Platform, a digital biobank for processing multimodal patient data
    
    
    
      BMC Bioinformatics
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      30 Nov 2020
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      doi:10.1186/s12859-020-03879-7
    
    
      
      
        
      
      
        
  
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Implications of TP53 allelic state for genome stability, clinical presentation and outcomes in myelodysplastic syndromes
    
    
    
      Nature Medicine
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      03 Aug 2020
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      doi:10.1038/s41591-020-1008-z
    
    
      
      
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Cancer therapy shapes the fitness landscape of clonal hematopoiesis
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      26 Oct 2020
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      doi:10.1038/s41588-020-00710-0
    
    
      
      
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Genomic Classification and Prognosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
    
    
    
      New England Journal of Medicine
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      09 Jun 2016
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      doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1516192
    
    
      
      
      
    
   
    
  
  
    
    
    
      Clinical significance of SF3B1 mutations in myelodysplastic syndromes and myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms
    
    
    
      Blood
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      08 Dec 2011
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      doi:10.1182/blood-2011-09-377275
    
    
      
      
      
    
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      Tumor-Infiltrating Clonal Hematopoiesis
    
    
    
      New England Journal of Medicine
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      24 Apr 2025
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      doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2413361
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Supernumerary ring chromosome 1 syndrome leads to fusion-driven B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in monozygotic twins
    
    
    
      Blood Advances
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      23 Apr 2025
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      doi:10.1182/bloodadvances.2024014869
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Germline UBA1 Variant With Somatic Amplification in a Woman With Inflammatory Diseases and Myelodysplastic Syndrome
    
    
    
      Annals of Internal Medicine
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      01 Feb 2025
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      doi:10.7326/L24-0125
    
    
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      Molecular taxonomy of myelodysplastic syndromes and its clinical implications
    
    
    
      Blood
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      10 Oct 2024
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      doi:10.1182/blood.2023023727
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Molecular and clinical presentation of UBA1-mutated myelodysplastic syndromes
    
    
    
      Blood
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      12 Sep 2024
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      doi:10.1182/blood.2023023723
    
    
  2023
    
    
    
      Subclonal Somatic Copy-Number Alterations Emerge and Dominate in Recurrent Osteosarcoma
    
    
    
      Cancer Research
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      09 Oct 2023
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      doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-0385
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Diagnostic utility of whole genome sequencing in adults with B-other acute lymphoblastic leukemia
    
    
    
      Blood Advances
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      27 Jul 2023
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      doi:10.1182/bloodadvances.2022008992
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Clonal evolution during metastatic spread in high-risk neuroblastoma
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      11 May 2023
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      doi:10.1038/s41588-023-01395-x
    
    
  2022
    
    
    
      Unified classification and risk-stratification in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
    
    
    
      Nature Communications
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      08 Aug 2022
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      doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32103-8
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Molecular International Prognostic Scoring System for Myelodysplastic Syndromes
    
    
    
      NEJM Evidence
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      28 Jun 2022
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      doi:10.1056/EVIDoa2200008
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Feasibility of whole genome and transcriptome profiling in pediatric and young adult cancers
    
    
    
      Nature Communications
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      18 May 2022
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      doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30233-7
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Patient-specific MDS-RS iPSCs define the mis-spliced transcript repertoire and chromatin landscape of SF3B1-mutant HSPCs
    
    
    
      Blood Advances
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      16 May 2022
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      doi:10.1182/bloodadvances.2021006325
    
    
  
    
    
    
      “Randomized phase II study of azacitidine ± lenalidomide in higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia with a karyotype including Del(5q)”
    
    
    
      Leukemia
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      11 Mar 2022
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      doi:10.1038/s41375-022-01537-w
    
    
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      Genetic and genomic analysis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in older adults reveals a distinct profile of abnormalities: analysis of 210 patients from the UKALL14 and UKALL60+ clinical trials
    
    
    
      Haematologica
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      18 Nov 2021
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      doi:10.3324/haematol.2021.279177
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Prognostic impact of chromosomal abnormalities and copy number alterations in adult B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a UKALL14 study
    
    
    
      Leukemia
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      16 Oct 2021
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      doi:10.1038/s41375-021-01448-2
    
    
  2020
    
    
    
      Isabl Platform, a digital biobank for processing multimodal patient data
    
    
    
      BMC Bioinformatics
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      30 Nov 2020
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      doi:10.1186/s12859-020-03879-7
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Cancer therapy shapes the fitness landscape of clonal hematopoiesis
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      26 Oct 2020
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      doi:10.1038/s41588-020-00710-0
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Implications of TP53 allelic state for genome stability, clinical presentation and outcomes in myelodysplastic syndromes
    
    
    
      Nature Medicine
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      03 Aug 2020
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      doi:10.1038/s41591-020-1008-z
    
    
  2016
    
    
    
      Genomic Classification and Prognosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
    
    
    
      New England Journal of Medicine
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      09 Jun 2016
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      doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1516192
    
    
  2015
    
    
    
      Effect of Mutation Order on Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
    
    
    
      New England Journal of Medicine
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      12 Feb 2015
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      doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1412098
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Recurrent ETNK1 mutations in atypical chronic myeloid leukemia
    
    
    
      Blood
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      15 Jan 2015
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      doi:10.1182/blood-2014-06-579466
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Combining gene mutation with gene expression data improves outcome prediction in myelodysplastic syndromes
    
    
    
      Nature Communications
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      09 Jan 2015
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      doi:10.1038/ncomms6901
    
    
  2014
    
    
    
      Disruption of SF3B1 results in deregulated expression and splicing of key genes and pathways in myelodysplastic syndrome hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
    
    
    
      Leukemia
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      27 Nov 2014
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      doi:10.1038/leu.2014.331
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Nongenetic stochastic expansion of JAK2V617F-homozygous subclones in polycythemia vera?
    
    
    
      Blood
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      20 Nov 2014
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      doi:10.1182/blood-2014-09-603043
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Characterization of gene mutations and copy number changes in acute myeloid leukemia using a rapid target enrichment protocol
    
    
    
      Haematologica
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      07 Nov 2014
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      doi:10.3324/haematol.2014.113381
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Origins and functional consequences of somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in human cancer
    
    
    
      eLife
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      01 Oct 2014
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      doi:10.7554/eLife.02935
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Driver somatic mutations identify distinct disease entities within myeloid neoplasms with myelodysplasia
    
    
    
      Blood
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      28 Aug 2014
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      doi:10.1182/blood-2014-03-560227
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Extensive transduction of nonrepetitive DNA mediated by L1 retrotransposition in cancer genomes
    
    
    
      Science
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      01 Aug 2014
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      doi:10.1126/science.1251343
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Myelodysplastic Syndromes Are Propagated by Rare and Distinct Human Cancer Stem Cells In Vivo
    
    
    
      Cancer Cell
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      01 Jun 2014
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      doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2014.03.036
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Minimal morphological criteria for defining bone marrow dysplasia: a basis for clinical implementation of WHO classification of myelodysplastic syndromes
    
    
    
      Leukemia
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      20 May 2014
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      doi:10.1038/leu.2014.161
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Association of a germline copy number polymorphism of APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B with burden of putative APOBEC-dependent mutations in breast cancer
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      13 Apr 2014
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      doi:10.1038/ng.2955
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Processed pseudogenes acquired somatically during cancer development
    
    
    
      Nature Communications
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      09 Apr 2014
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      doi:10.1038/ncomms4644
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Constitutional and somatic rearrangement of chromosome 21 in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
    
    
    
      Nature
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      23 Mar 2014
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      doi:10.1038/nature13115
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Recurrent PTPRB and PLCG1 mutations in angiosarcoma
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      16 Mar 2014
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      doi:10.1038/ng.2921
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Subclonal variant calling with multiple samples and prior knowledge
    
    
    
      Bioinformatics
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      16 Jan 2014
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      doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt750
    
    
  
    
    
    
      RAG-mediated recombination is the predominant driver of oncogenic rearrangement in ETV6-RUNX1 acute lymphoblastic leukemia
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      12 Jan 2014
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      doi:10.1038/ng.2874
    
    
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      SomaticCALRMutations in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms with NonmutatedJAK2
    
    
    
      New England Journal of Medicine
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      19 Dec 2013
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      doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1312542
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Inactivating CUX1 mutations promote tumorigenesis
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      08 Dec 2013
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      doi:10.1038/ng.2846
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Clinical and biological implications of driver mutations in myelodysplastic syndromes
    
    
    
      Blood
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      21 Nov 2013
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      doi:10.1182/blood-2013-08-518886
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Single-cell mutational profiling and clonal phylogeny in cancer
    
    
    
      Genome Research
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      20 Sep 2013
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      doi:10.1101/gr.159913.113
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer
    
    
    
      Nature
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      14 Aug 2013
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      doi:10.1038/nature12477
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Whole exome sequencing of adenoid cystic carcinoma
    
    
    
      Journal of Clinical Investigation
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      17 Jun 2013
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      doi:10.1172/JCI67201
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Inappropriately low hepcidin levels in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome carrying a somatic mutation of SF3B1
    
    
    
      Haematologica
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      08 Jan 2013
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      doi:10.3324/haematol.2012.077446
    
    
  2012
    
    
    
      Recurrent SETBP1 mutations in atypical chronic myeloid leukemia
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      09 Dec 2012
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      doi:10.1038/ng.2495
    
    
  
    
    
    
      The transporter ABCB7 is a mediator of the phenotype of acquired refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts
    
    
    
      Leukemia
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      16 Oct 2012
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      doi:10.1038/leu.2012.298
    
    
  
    
    
    
      The landscape of cancer genes and mutational processes in breast cancer
    
    
    
      Nature
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      16 May 2012
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      doi:10.1038/nature11017
    
    
  
    
    
    
      The Life History of 21 Breast Cancers
    
    
    
      Cell
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      01 May 2012
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      doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.04.023
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Mutational Processes Molding the Genomes of 21 Breast Cancers
    
    
    
      Cell
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      01 May 2012
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      doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.04.024
    
    
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      Clinical significance of SF3B1 mutations in myelodysplastic syndromes and myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms
    
    
    
      Blood
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      08 Dec 2011
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      doi:10.1182/blood-2011-09-377275
    
    
  
    
    
    
      SomaticSF3B1Mutation in Myelodysplasia with Ring Sideroblasts
    
    
    
      New England Journal of Medicine
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      13 Oct 2011
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      doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1103283
    
    
  
    
    
    
      MHC variation and risk of childhood B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia
    
    
    
      Blood
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      03 Feb 2011
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      doi:10.1182/blood-2010-08-301598
    
    
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      Genome-wide homozygosity signatures and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk
    
    
    
      Blood
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      03 Jun 2010
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      doi:10.1182/blood-2009-09-244483
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Variation in CDKN2A at 9p21.3 influences childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      09 May 2010
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      doi:10.1038/ng.585
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Verification of the susceptibility loci on 7p12.2, 10q21.2, and 14q11.2 in precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia of childhood
    
    
    
      Blood
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      04 Mar 2010
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      doi:10.1182/blood-2009-09-241513
    
    
  2009
    
    
    
      Loci on 7p12.2, 10q21.2 and 14q11.2 are associated with risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
    
    
    
      Nature Genetics
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      16 Aug 2009
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      doi:10.1038/ng.430
    
    
  2008
    
    
    
      Deciphering the genetics of hereditary non-syndromic colorectal cancer
    
    
    
      European Journal of Human Genetics
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      16 Jul 2008
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      doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.129
    
    
  
    
    
    
      Analysis of a large multi‐generational family provides insight into the genetics of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
    
    
    
      British Journal of Haematology
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      28 Jun 2008
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      doi:10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07188.x
    
    
  