The molecular pathogenesis of acute promyelocytic leukaemia: implications for the clinical management of the disease.

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Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) is characterised by chromosomal rearrangements of 17q21, leading to fusion of the gene encoding retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARalpha) to a number of alternative partner genes (X), the most frequent of which are PML (>95%), PLZF (0.8%) and NPM (0.5%). Over the last few years, it has been established that the X-RARalpha fusion proteins play a key role in the pathogenesis of APL...

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