Co-morbidity between early-onset leukemia and type 1 diabetes--suggestive of a shared viral etiology?

<h4>Background</h4>Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are common early-onset malignancies. Their causes are largely unknown but infectious etiology has been implicated. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease for which infectious triggers of diseas...

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Main Authors: Kari Hemminki, Richard Houlston, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist, Xiaochen Shu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22745776/?tool=EBI