Morning Seminar September 30, 2008

Nature. 2008 Aug 24. [Epub ahead of print]
Identification of ALK as a major familial neuroblastoma predisposition gene.
Mossé YP, Laudenslager M, Longo L, Cole KA, Wood A, Attiyeh EF, Laquaglia MJ, Sennett R, Lynch JE, Perri P, Laureys G, Speleman F, Kim C, Hou C, Hakonarson H, Torkamani A, Schork NJ, Brodeur GM, Tonini GP, Rappaport E, Devoto M, Maris JM.

Morning Seminar September 25, 2008

Nature. 2008 Jun 19;453(7198):1072-8.
PML targeting eradicates quiescent leukaemia-initiating cells.
Ito K, Bernardi R, Morotti A, Matsuoka S, Saglio G, Ikeda Y, Rosenblatt J, Avigan DE, Teruya-Feldstein J, Pandolfi PP.

Morning Seminar September 18, 2008

Lancet. 2007 Jun 9;369(9577):1947-54.
Outcomes of transplantation of unrelated donor umbilical cord blood and bone marrow in children with acute leukaemia: a comparison study.
Eapen M, Rubinstein P, Zhang MJ, Stevens C, Kurtzberg J, Scaradavou A, Loberiza FR, Champlin RE, Klein JP, Horowitz MM, Wagner JE.

Morning Seminar September 11, 2008

Blood. 2008 Sep 15;112(6):2579-2582.
Chronic graft-versus-host disease following umbilical cord blood transplantation: retrospective survey involving 1072 patients in Japan.
Narimatsu H, Miyakoshi S, Yamaguchi T, Kami M, Matsumura T, Yuji K, Murashige N, Kusumi E, Kodama Y, Komatsu T, Sakamaki H, Kouzai Y, Okada M, Osugi Y, Kobayashi R, Inoue M, Takahashi S, Kai S, Kato K, Inoue-Nagamura T, Taniguchi S, Kato S; for the Japan Cord Blood Bank Network.

Morning Seminar September 9, 2008

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2008 Aug;51(2):188-92.
The role of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with relapsed or primary refractory childhood B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and mature B-cell leukemia: a retrospective analysis of enrolled cases in Japan.
Fujita N, Mori T, Mitsui T, Inada H, Horibe K, Tsurusawa M; Lymphoma Committee of the Japanese Pediatric Leukemia/Lymphoma Study Group.