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| M F GreavesSummaryAffiliation: Institute of Cancer Research Country: UK Publications
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Leukemia in twins: lessons in natural historyMel F Greaves
Leukemia Research Fund Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, 237 Fulham Rd, London SW3 6JB, United Kingdom
Blood 102:2321-33. 2003..We argue that these insights provide a very useful framework for attempts to understand etiologic mechanisms...
Molecular genetics, natural history and the demise of childhood leukaemiaM Greaves
LRF Centre for the Cell and Molecular Biology of Leukaemia, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London, U K
Eur J Cancer 35:173-85. 1999..Even for a classic case of a cancer that is intrinsically curable by systematic chemotherapy i.e. childhood ALL, prevention may turn out to be the preferred option...
Molecular genetics, natural history and the demise of childhood leukaemiaM Greaves
LRF Centre for the Cell and Molecular Biology of Leukaemia, Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London, U K
Eur J Cancer 35:1941-53. 1999..Even for a classic case of a cancer that is intrinsically curable by systematic chemotherapy i.e. childhood ALL, prevention may turn out to be the preferred option...
Cancer causation: the Darwinian downside of past success?Mel Greaves
Cell Biology and the Leukaemia Research Fund Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Lancet Oncol 3:244-51. 2002..A case is made here for a Darwinian perspective on breast and prostate cancers, for which current understanding of causation is limited and contentious...
Childhood leukaemiaMel Greaves
Leukaemia Research Fund Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London SW3 6JB
BMJ 324:283-7. 2002
Origins of "late" relapse in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia with TEL-AML1 fusion genesA M Ford
Leukaemia Research Fund Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, 237 Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, United Kingdom
Blood 98:558-64. 2001..Blood. 2001;98:558-564)..
Molecular tracking of leukemogenesis in a triplet pregnancyA T Maia
Leukaemia Research Fund Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London, United Kingdom
Blood 98:478-82. 2001..These data support a multihit temporal model for the pathogenesis of the common form of childhood leukemia...
Rapid positive selection of CD34+ cells using magnetic microspheres coated with monoclonal antibody QBEND/10 linked via a cleavable disulphide bondP G Grimsley
Leukaemia Research Fund Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Leukemia 7:898-908. 1993..Furthermore, granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming cells were retained in the positive fraction. This methodology can be used to purify other cell types, including T and B lymphocytes...
Multilineage phenotypes of interleukin-3-dependent progenitor cellsA M Ford
Leukaemia Research Fund Centre, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London, England
Blood 79:1962-71. 1992....
Molecular characterization of genomic AML1-ETO fusions in childhood leukemiaZ Xiao
Leukaemia Research Fund Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Leukemia 15:1906-13. 2001..Breakpoints in general displayed similar complexity of duplications, deletions, and insertions to other common pediatric leukemia translocations (TEL-AML1, MLL-AF4, PML-RARA, CBFB-MYH11) that we and others have analyzed...
Activation of the beta-globin locus control region precedes commitment to the erythroid lineageG Jimenez
Leukaemia Research Fund Centre, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89:10618-22. 1992..These results show that the beta-globin LCR is in an active chromatin configuration prior to erythroid commitment and indicate a significant role for selective gene repression in lineage specification...
Origins of chromosome translocations in childhood leukaemiaMel F Greaves
LRF Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, 237 Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, UK
Nat Rev Cancer 3:639-49. 2003..How, when and where do translocations arise? And can these insights aid our understanding of the natural history, pathogenesis and causes of leukaemia?..
Is the timing of exposure to infection a major determinant of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in Hong Kong?Li Chong Chan
Haematology Section, Department of Pathology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 16:154-65. 2002..These results provide support for the delayed exposure hypothesis in an affluent geographical setting in which population exposure to infectious agents is quite distinct from the settings of previous case-control studies...
Patterns of somatic mutation in human cancer genomesChristopher Greenman
Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Nature 446:153-8. 2007..Systematic sequencing of cancer genomes therefore reveals the evolutionary diversity of cancers and implicates a larger repertoire of cancer genes than previously anticipated...
