High ambient temperature in pregnancy and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: an observational study
Rogne T, Wang R, Wang P, Deziel N, Metayer C, Wiemels J, Chen K, Warren J, Ma X. High ambient temperature in pregnancy and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: an observational study. The Lancet Planetary Health 2024, 8: e506-e514. PMID: 38969477, PMCID: PMC11260908, DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00121-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaChildhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaAcute lymphoblastic leukemiaLymphoblastic leukemiaLatino childrenNon-Latino white childrenAssociated with risk of adverse pregnancy outcomesCalifornia Cancer RegistryRisk of acute lymphoblastic leukemiaCalifornia birth recordsRisk of adverse pregnancy outcomesPre-pregnancy periodAssociated with riskBayesian meta-regressionNational Institutes of HealthCancer RegistryCases of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemiaNational Center for Advancing Translational SciencesAdverse pregnancy outcomesAcute lymphoblastic leukemia casesInstitutes of HealthInvestigation of mechanistic pathwaysBirth recordsGestational weeks 8Pre-pregnancyA 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