Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Genome-wide association study identifies risk loci for progressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia

  • Wei-Yu Lin,
  • Sarah E. Fordham,
  • Nicola Sunter,
  • Claire Elstob,
  • Thahira Rahman,
  • Elaine Willmore,
  • Colin Shepherd,
  • Gordon Strathdee,
  • Tryfonia Mainou-Fowler,
  • Rachel Piddock,
  • Hannah Mearns,
  • Timothy Barrow,
  • Richard S. Houlston,
  • Helen Marr,
  • Jonathan Wallis,
  • Geoffrey Summerfield,
  • Scott Marshall,
  • Andrew Pettitt,
  • Christopher Pepper,
  • Christopher Fegan,
  • Francesco Forconi,
  • Martin J. S. Dyer,
  • Sandrine Jayne,
  • April Sellors,
  • Anna Schuh,
  • Pauline Robbe,
  • David Oscier,
  • James Bailey,
  • Syed Rais,
  • Alison Bentley,
  • Lynn Cawkwell,
  • Paul Evans,
  • Peter Hillmen,
  • Guy Pratt,
  • David J. Allsup,
  • James M. Allan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20822-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The clinical course of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is variable and difficult to predict. Here, the authors conduct a genome wide association study meta-analysis for time to first treatment in CLL patients and report two loci associating with progressive disease.