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American Society of Hematology, Blood, 12(129), p. 1680-1684, 2017
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-07-723148
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In utero cytomegalovirus infection and development of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Journal article published in 2016 by
Stephen Starko Francis,
Amelia D. Wallace,
George A. Wendt,
Linlin Li,
Fenyong Liu,
Lee W. Riley,
Scott Kogan,
Kyle M. Walsh,
Adam J. de Smith,
Gary V. Dahl,
Xiaomei Ma,
Eric Delwart,
Catherine Metayer 
,
Joseph L. Wiemels
,
Joseph L. Wiemels
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Key Points CMV is prevalent in pretreatment bone marrow from childhood ALL and not in acute myeloid leukemia. In utero infection with CMV is a risk factor for ALL (OR = 3.71, P = .0016) and is more pronounced in Hispanics (OR = 5.90, P = .006).