Possible imprinting and microchimerism in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and related lymphoproliferative disorders.
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Based on the concept that the tumorogenesis in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia comprises both an initial, inherited mutation and subsequent somatic mutations, the pleiotypic diversity of familial chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and related malignant lymphoproliferative disorders is generally explained by a repertoire of monoallelic polygenes in the initial mutation. Epigenetic genomic imprinting is a likely mechanism behind of the asynchroneous replicating monoallelic polygenes which is discussed in the light of pleiotrophy and birth order effect. Furthermore, it is discussed that one possible mechanism available for the epigenetic transfer of these genes could be the physiological pregnancy-related microchimerism between mother and fetus.
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Institutions: Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo
Language: English
Subfield: Hematology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1521555860