PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF BRAIN AND ACUTE LEUKEMIA CYTOPLASMIC GENE EXPRESSION IN EGYPTIAN CHILDREN WITH ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
Abstract Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) accounts for 25%-35% of the acute leukemia in children.BAALC (Brain and Acute Leukemia, Cytoplasmic gene) is a recently identified gene on chromosome 8q22.3 that has prognostic significance in AML.The aim of this work was to study the impact of BAALC gene expression on prognosis of AML in Egyptian c