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Polycythemia vera erythroid precursors exhibit increased proliferation and apoptosis resistance associated with abnormal RAS and PI3K pathway activation.
Experimental hematology - 1 Dec 2009
Laubach Jacob P, Fu Ping, Jiang Xiaohong, Salter Kelly H, Potti Anil, Arcasoy Murat O
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Polycythemia vera (PV) is characterized by erythrocytosis associated with the presence of the activating JAK2(V617F) mutation in a variable proportion of hematopoietic cells. JAK2(V617F) is detected in other myeloproliferative neoplasms, does not appear to be the PV-initiating event, and its specific role in deregulated erythropoiesis in PV is incompletely understood. We investigated the pathogenesis...
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