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Sensitive detection of KIT D816V in patients with mastocytosis.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Dec 2006
Tan Angela, Westerman David, McArthur Grant A, Lynch Kevin, Waring Paul, Dobrovic Alexander
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The 2447 A > T pathogenic variation at codon 816 of exon 17 (D816V) in the KIT gene, occurring in systemic mastocytosis (SM), leads to constitutive activation of tyrosine kinase activity and confers resistance to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib mesylate. Thus detection of this variation in SM patients is important for determining treatment strategy, but because the population of malignant cells...
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