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Current management of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia and the impact of RAS mutations.
Paediatric drugs - 1 Jun 2012
Yoshida Nao, Doisaki Sayoko, Kojima Seiji
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Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a rare clonal myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disorder that affects young children. It is characterized by hypersensitivity of JMML cells to granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) in vitro. The pathogenesis of JMML seems to arise from constitutional activation of the GM-CSF/RAS (a GTPase) signaling pathway, a result of mutations in RAS, NF1, PTPN11,...
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