2024
A noncoding regulatory variant in IKZF1 increases acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in Hispanic/Latino children
de Smith A, Wahlster L, Jeon S, Kachuri L, Black S, Langie J, Cato L, Nakatsuka N, Chan T, Xia G, Mazumder S, Yang W, Gazal S, Eng C, Hu D, Burchard E, Ziv E, Metayer C, Mancuso N, Yang J, Ma X, Wiemels J, Yu F, Chiang C, Sankaran V. A noncoding regulatory variant in IKZF1 increases acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in Hispanic/Latino children. Cell Genomics 2024, 4: 100526. PMID: 38537633, PMCID: PMC11019360, DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100526.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHispanic/Latino childrenNon-Hispanic White individualsHigher risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemiaRisk of acute lymphoblastic leukemiaNoncoding regulatory variantsFine-mapping analysisAcute lymphoblastic leukemia riskAcute lymphoblastic leukemiaEvidence of selectionIndigenous American ancestryReduced enhancer activityRisk allele frequenciesIncreased ALL riskRegulatory variantsHispanic/Latino individualsPro-B cellsHispanic/Latino populationRacial/ethnic groupsDownstream enhancerGenetic basisLeukemia riskWhite individualsAllele frequenciesAmerican ancestryALL risk
2013
Associations between genome-wide Native American ancestry, known risk alleles and B-cell ALL risk in Hispanic children
Walsh KM, Chokkalingam AP, Hsu LI, Metayer C, de Smith AJ, Jacobs DI, Dahl GV, Loh ML, Smirnov IV, Bartley K, Ma X, Wiencke JK, Barcellos LF, Wiemels JL, Buffler PA. Associations between genome-wide Native American ancestry, known risk alleles and B-cell ALL risk in Hispanic children. Leukemia 2013, 27: 2416-2419. PMID: 23615557, PMCID: PMC3864612, DOI: 10.1038/leu.2013.130.Peer-Reviewed Original Research