Birth order pattern in the inheritance of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and related lymphoproliferative disease

References

• Houlston R S, Sellick G, Yuille M, Matutes E, Catovsky D. Causation of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia – insight from familial disease. Leuk Res 2003; 27: 871–876
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Goldin L R, Pfeiffer R M, Li X, Hemminki K. Familial risk of lymphoproliferative tumors in families of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, results from the Swedish family-cancer database. Blood 2004; 194: 1850–1854
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Daugherty S E, Pfeiffer R M, Mellemkjaer L, Hemminki K. No evidence for anticipation in lymphoproliferative tumors in population-based samples. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2005; 14: 1245–1250
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alexandrescu D T, Garino A, Brown-Balem K A, Wiernik P H. Anticipation in families with Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in their pedigree. Leuk Lymph 2006; 47: 2115–2127
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Goldin L R, Ishibe N, Sgambati M, Marti G E, Fontaine L, Lee M P, et al. A genome scan of 18 families with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Br J Haematol 2003; 121: 866–873
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Segel G B, Lichtman M A. Familial inherited leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, an overview. Blood Cells Mol Dis 2004; 32: 246–261
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sellick G S, Webb E L, Allinson R, Matutes E, Dyer M JS, Jønsson V, et al. A high-density SNP genomewide linkage scan for chronic lymphocytic leukemia-susceptibility loci. Am J Hum Genet 2005; 77: 420–429
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hartwell L H, Hood L, Goldberg M L, Reynolds A E, Silver L M, Veres R C. Genomic imprinting. Genetics from genes to genomes, L H Hartwell, L Hood, M L Goldberg, A E Reynolds, L M Silver, R C Veres. McGraw Hill, Boston 2000; 408–410
   Google Scholar
• Angiolini E, Fowden A, Coan P, Sandovici I, Smith P, Dean W, et al. Regulation of placental efficiency for nutrient transport by imprinted genes. Placenta 2006; 27: 98–102
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Federman D D. The biology of human sex differences. N Engl J Med 2006; 354: 1507–1517
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kaneko-Ishino T, Kohda T, Ono R, Ishino F. Complementation hypothesis, the necessity of a monoallelic gene expression mechanism in mammalian development. Cytogen Genom Res 2006; 113: 24–30
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lewis A, Reik W. How imprinting centres work. Cytogen Genom Res 2006; 113: 81–89
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Santure A W, Spencer H G. Influence of mom and dad, quantitative genetic models for maternal effects on genomic imprinting. Genetics 2006; 173: 2297–2316
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilkins J F. Competative signal discrimination, methylation, reprogramming and genomic imprinting. J Theoret Biol 2006; 242: 643–651
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Emery A EH. Parental age and birth order. Methodology in medical genetics, 2nd edn, A EH Emery. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, London 1986; 140–153
   Google Scholar
• Moore T, Haig D. Genomic imprinting in mammalian development, a parental tug-of-war. Trends Genet 1991; 7: 45–49
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ong K K, Petry C J, Barratt B J, Ring S, Cordell H J, Wingate D L, , the Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood Study Team, et al. Maternal-fetal interaction and birth order influence insulin variable number of tandem repeats allele class associations with head size at birth and childhood weight gain. Diabetes 2004; 53: 1128–1133
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harris N L, Ferry J A. Classification of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Neoplastic Hematopathology, 2nd edn, D M Knowles. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2001; 691–753
   Google Scholar
• Muller-Hermelink H K, Catovsky D, Montserrat E, Harris N L. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma. Tumours of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues, E Jaffe, N L Harris, H Stein, J Vardiman. IARC Press, Lyon 2001; 127–130
   Google Scholar
• Chiorazzi N, Rai K R, Ferrarini M. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia. N Engl J Med 2005; 352: 804–815
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cox D R. The regression analysis of binary sequences. J R Stat Soc 1958; 20: 215–242
   Google Scholar
• Haldane J BS, Smith C AB. A simple exact test for birth-order effect. Ann Eugenics 1947; 14: 117–124
   Google Scholar
• Wilcoxon F. Probability tables for individual comparisons by ranking methods. Biometrics 1947; 3: 119–122
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rawstron A C, Yuille M R, Fuller J, Cullen M, Kennedy B, Richards S J, et al. Inherited predisposition to CLL is detectable as subclinical monoclonal B-lymphocyte expansion. Blood 2002; 100: 2289–2290
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kyle R A, Terneau T M, Rajkumar S V, Offord J R, Larson D R, Plevak M F, et al. A long-term study of prognosis in monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. N Engl J Med 2002; 346: 564–569
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Isaacson P G. Gastrointestinal lymphomas and lymphoid hyperplasias. Neoplastic Hematopathology, 2nd edn, D M Knowles. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2001; 1235–1261
   Google Scholar
• Birth statistics in Denmark. National Board of Health, Vital Statistics I Birth Register, 2007. State Publ. Denmark, Copenhagen, (www.sst.dk/informatik/birth) and (www.statistikbanken.dk/statbank) 5a/selecttable FOD3 (Birth in DK since 1901)
   Google Scholar
• Irgens L M. The medical birth registry in Norway. Epidemiological research and surveillance throughout 30 years. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 200; 79: 435–439
   Google Scholar
• Skjærven R, Vatten L J, Wilcox A J, Rønning T, Irgens L M, Lie R T. Recurrence of pre-eclapsia across generations, exploring fetal and maternal genetic components in a population based cohort. BMJ, doi:10.1136/bmj.38555.462685.8F (published on-line 16 Sept 2005)
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Altieri A, Castro F, Bermejo J L, Hemminki K. Number of siblings and risk of lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma by histopathology. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006; 15: 1281–1286
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang S S, Slanger S L, Brennan P, Holly E A, De Sanjose S, Bernstein L, et al. Family history of hemotopoietic malignancies and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a pooled analysis of 10211 cases and 11905 controls from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph). Blood 2007; 109: 3479–3488
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith C AB. Discussion on Dr. Cox's paper. The regression analysis of binary sequences, D R Cox, 1958; 20: 232–233, J Roy Stat Soc
   Google Scholar
• Nelson J L. Microchimerism and autoimmune disease. N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1224–1225
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Adams K M, Nelson J L. Microchimerism: an investigative frontier in autoimmunity and transplantation. JAMA 2004; 291: 1127–1131
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Adams K M, Gadi V K. Autoimmunity in CLL, grave consequences of gravidity?. Leuk Lymph 2006; 47: 1445–1446
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stevens A M, McDonnell W M, Mullarkey M E, Pang J M, Leisenring W, Nelson J L. Liver biopsies from human females contain male hepatocytes in the absence of transplantation. Lab Invest 2004; 84: 1603–1609
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bayes-Genis A, Bellosillo B, de la Calle O, Salido M, Roura S, Ristol F S. Identification of male cardiomyocytes of extracardiac origin in the hearts of woman with male progeny, male fetal cell microchimerism in the heart. J Heart Lung Transplant 2005; 24: 2179–2183
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ubeda F, Haig D. On the evolutionary stability of Mendelian segregation. Genetics 2005; 170: 1345–1357
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Raval A, Byrd J C, Plass C. Epigenetics in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Semin Oncol 2006; 33: 157–166
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Raval A, Tanner S M, Bryd J C, Angerman E B, Perko J D, Chen S S, et al. Downregulation of death-associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK 1) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cell 2007; 129: 879–890
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Amiel A, Leopold L, Gronich N, Yukla M, Fejgin M D, Lishner M. The influence of different chromosomal aberrations on molecular cytogenetic parameters in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 2006; 167: 145–149
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar