Junko Takita, Seishi Ogawa and colleagues profile 121 cases of pediatric T cell acute lymphoblasic leukemia (T-ALL) and identify recurrent SPI1 (PU.1) gene fusions. They find that these SPI1 fusions correlated with poor survival, retained transcriptional activity and, in a mouse stem cell model, enhanced cell proliferation.
- Masafumi Seki
- Shunsuke Kimura
- Junko Takita
