Daniel Link, Washington University School of Medicine (IMAGE)

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Daniel Link, Washington University School of Medicine

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New research by Daniel Link, MD, and colleagues at The Genome Institute at Washington University has revealed that mutations that accumulate randomly as a person ages can play a role in a fatal form of leukemia that develops after treatment for another cancer.

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Robert Boston, Washington University in St. Louis

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