Sam M Mbulaiteye

nature.com/articles/s4159…. Pleased to share this landmark article showing potential to use blood-based genomics tests for faster diagnosis of Burkitt lymphoma in African children. Congs @AnnaSchuh3 and team, @UniofOxford, @NCIDirector , and DCEG, & @NIHRresearch. Please read share.

Faster, simpler, and accurate methods of diagnosing Burkitt lymphoma are needed. We show that Circulating plasma EBV DNA: a potential tool to facilitate diagnosis of pediatric Burkitt lymphoma in sub-Saharan Africa. Earlier diagnosis of BL is possible. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Super excited to share our paper “A genome-wide association study identifies an African-specific locus on chromosome 21q22.12 associated with Burkitt lymphoma risk and survival”. This work should encourage more studies to understand the genetic basis of BL nature.com/articles/s4137…

@johnsonnkuuhe - Hello Johnson, sorry to hear about the passing of your dear wife, Jessica. Just reaching out to wish you strength and God’s comfort.

Joint analysis of Burkitt tumors from Africa, US, Europe, and Latin America continents confirm confirms DNA methylation epitypes of Burkitt lymphoma with distinct molecular and clinical features. Regardless of geography. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40338627/

Diagnosing Burkitt Lymphoma in Sub-Saharan Africa by Sequencing of Circulating Tumor DNA: A Comparative Microcostin… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40209317/- Dr. Morrell shows that liquid biopsy is feasible for Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis, but we need to increase scale #diagnoseallBLcases #AIREAL

Subtyping Burkitt Lymphoma by DNA Methylation - by studying Burkitt tumors from Europe and Africa together, we confirm that EBV is the major driver of biological variation in BL, and discover additional variation in both EBV positive and negative BL. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40192513/

I am delighted to share our work identifying excess cancer risk among Asian American and Pacific Islander solid organ transplant recipients. I appreciate @JNCI_Now and contributions from my coauthors! academic.oup.com/jnci/article-a…

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President Trump asked me to do an online survey here: on a scale from 1-10, rate the DOGE’s performance so far.

CIFF2025 - BURKITT | Solas Nua I enjoyed seeing this documentary, which tells Burkitt’s story of discovery of his eponymous disease. Careful observation, enquiring mind, and sharing results with passion opened up the field of viral oncology! Asante Sana! solasnua.org/events/ciff202…

Happy to share our paper in @NatureComms with Oscar Florez-Vargas @oflorezvargas and team! We explore a VNTR as a functional GWAS lead for bladder and many other cancers, and show mechanism in cancer, telomere length, and longevity nature.com/articles/s4146…

We need more such stories in African patients with Burkitt lymphoma!

@lacor_hospital Inspiring story!!

Overjoyed because I overcame cancer 😂 🩷 #burkittlymphoma #cancersurvivor #Lacorhospital Full story 👇 lacorhospital.org/a-happy-ending…

@marvinmusk Makala

Mpanda!

Attending ASH24- talks on Burkitt lymphoma are sparse, but happy to note that molecular data support presence of age-specific patterns originally suspected from analysis of density plots of BL in the SEER registry databases.

A trip to space!

Great talk at #ASHG24 @oflorezvargas! Check out our corresponding preprint: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

#eidtorchoice #article Burkitt #Lymphoma Incidence in Five Continents by Dr. Sam M. Mbulaiteye @SMbulaiteye and Dr. Susan S. Devesa Welcome to Read! mdpi.com/2673-6357/3/3/…

It was a pleasure to host Ms. Carole Metekoua to deliver a departmental seminar on Burkitt lymphoma epidemiology in South Africa 🇿🇦. Great collaboration between US and South African scientists.