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Re: Prognostic Significance of a Short Sequence Insertion in the MCL-1 Promoter in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Affiliations of authors: Molecular Oncology Program (SNF, WDC), Thoracic Oncology Program (GB, EH), and Cancer Control Program (RS), The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL
Correspondence to: Doug Cress, PhD, Molecular Oncology Program, The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, Florida 33612-9497 (e-mail: cressd@moffitt.usf.edu).
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A recent article entitled "Prognostic Significance of a Short Sequence Insertion in the MCL-1 Promoter in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia" identified two novel sequence variants of the MCL-1 promoter within lymphocytes from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients but not within noncancerous tissue from the same individuals or in lymphocytes from 18 healthy control subjects (1). This result suggested that the variantsinsertions of 6 and 18 nucleotides at position 188 relative to the transcription start site as mapped by Akgul et al. (2)were CLL-related somatic oncogenic mutations. Moshynska
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J Natl Cancer Inst 2005 97: 1093-1095.