[The high event-free survival rates of Down syndrome (DS) children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are due, in part, to increased in vitro sensitivity of DS myeloblasts to cytosine arabinoside (ara-C) and daunorubicin and the greater generation of ara-C triphosphate (ara-CTP) from ara-C compared with myeloblasts from non-DS patients (Taub et al, Blood 87:3395, 1996).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE