Guest guest Posted October 23, 2009 Report Share Posted October 23, 2009 What you probably didn't know about your thymus gland. http://www.bartleby.com/107/274.html ********************************************* October 2009 --Mother passes on leukemia to unborn baby " " ...a 28-year old mother was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after giving birth to a baby girl who developed similar symptoms when she was nearly a year old. " Using various methods, Isoda and colleagues were able to show that the cancer cells in the baby were a genetic match to those of the mother. First they generated clones of the cancer cells from both mother and baby and found that they " shared the same unique BCR-ABL1 genomic fusion sequence, indicating a shared, single-cell origin " , and then they showed that " microsatellite markers in the infant cancer were all of maternal origin " . " They also found that the baby's cancer cells had inherited a pattern of missing genes (notably a " major deletion on one copy of chromosome 6p that included deletion of HLA alleles " ) that probably helped the cells avoid detection and destruction by the placental barrier and the baby's immune system. " http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/167234.php FYI, Lottie Duthu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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