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Clinical utility of routine MPL exon 10 analysis in the diagnosis of essential thrombocythaemia and primary myelofibrosis.
British journal of haematology - 1 Apr 2010
Boyd Elaine M, Bench Anthony J, Goday-Fernández Andrea, Anand Shubha, Vaghela Krishna J, Beer Phillip, Scott Mike A, Bareford David, Green Anthony R, Huntly Brian, Erber Wendy N
Abstract excerpt
Approximately 50% of essential thrombocythaemia and primary myelo-fibrosis patients do not have a JAK2 V617F mutation. Up to 5% of these are reported to have a MPL exon 10 mutation but testing for MPL is not routine as there are multiple mutation types. The ability to routinely assess both JAK2 a...
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