First Large-Scale Genomic Analysis of Key Acute Leukemia Will Likely Yield New Therapies
A consortium including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Children’s Oncology Group has performed an unprecedented genomic sequencing analysis of hundreds of patients with T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). The results provide a detailed genomic landscape that will inform treatment strategies and aid efforts to develop drugs to target newly discovered mutations. The data will also enable researchers to engineer better mouse models to probe the leukemia’s aberrant biological