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SUBMITTER: Toft-Petersen M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4250842 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Toft-Petersen Marie M Kjeldsen Eigil E Nederby Line L Grønbæk Kirsten K Hokland Peter P Roug Anne Stidsholt AS
Leukemia research reports 20141113 2
We have identified a novel 7.7 Mb del(8)(q23.2q24.11) in a patient progressing to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) following a 12-year stable phase of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML). A surprisingly high JAK2+ allelic burden of 92% at the time of AML led us to delineate the molecular aberrations relevant for leukemogenesis. While a frameshift mutation in the TET2 gene was stably present throughout the course of disease the JAK2 mutation was acquired after initial diagnosis of CMML. At progres ...[more]