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High percentage of JAK2 exon 12 mutation in Asian patients with polycythemia vera.
American journal of clinical pathology - 1 Aug 2010
Yeh Yu-Min, Chen Yi-Lin, Cheng Hsieh-Yin, Su Wu-Chou, Chow Nan-Haw, Chen Tsai-Yun, Ho Chung-Liang
Abstract excerpt
We examined the occurrence of JAK2(V617F) and JAK2 exon 12 mutations in a clinical cohort of polycythemia vera (PV) in Taiwan. Of 22 patients with PV, 17 (77%) had the V617F mutation, and all 5 V617F-negative patients (23%) had the exon 12 mutation. We found 3 different exon 12 mutations: 3 N542-E543del, 1 F537-K539delinsL, and 1 novel mutation, I540-E543delinsKK. Patients with V617F showed significantly higher...
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