Pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukaemia and inv(16)(p13;q22): a paradigm for understanding leukaemogenesis?

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Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) has been proposed to arise from the collaboration between two classes of mutation, a class I, or proliferative, mutation and a class II, or blocking, mutation. A limitation of this so-called 'two-hit' hypothesis has been the lack of identifiable proliferative and blocking mutations in most AML cases. However, it is now known that the CBFbeta-MYH11 fusion gene in AML and inv(16), by...

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