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BackgroundA genetic predisposition to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in childhood is well established. Currently known risk loci, however, explain only one third of the estimated total risk related to common genetic variations.
ProcedureWe genotyped 1,421 polymorphisms in 407 candidate genes from the SNP500Cancer database (National Cancer Institute) using the Illumina Cancer SNP Panel. We investigated...