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c-kit Mutations in patients with childhood-onset mastocytosis and genotype-phenotype correlation.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 May 2005
Yanagihori Hirokatsu, Oyama Noritaka, Nakamura Koichiro, Kaneko Fumio
Abstract excerpt
Mastocytosis represents a clonal proliferation of mast cell hematopoietic progenitors caused by gain-of-function mutations of the c-kit gene. The heterogeneity of c-kit mutations may have contributed to difficulties in characterizing genotype-phenotype correlation of the disease. Our goal was to...
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