The present case in a patient with lymphoidleukemia is the first to be reported.
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The MLL gene is involved in many chromosomal translocations leading to both acute myeloid and lymphoidleukemia.
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It is also expressed by leukemic blasts of a small group of patients suffering from acute or chronic lymphoidleukemia.
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Increasing annual incidence rates were found for all childhood cancers combined, acute lymphoidleukemia, and brain tumors, but not for other cancer types.