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Clinical importance of SF3B1 mutations in Chinese with myelodysplastic syndromes with ring sideroblasts.
Leukemia research - 1 Nov 2012
Cui Rui, Gale Robert Peter, Xu Zefeng, Qin Tiejun, Fang Liwei, Zhang Hongli, Pan Lijuan, Zhang Yue, Xiao Zhijian
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Recent studies report SF3B1 mutations in about 20% of persons of European descent with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Mutations are especially common in persons with ring sideroblasts (RS). SF3B1 mutation state was determined in 104 Chinese with MDS-RS. SF3B1 mutations were found in 55 subjects (53%) including 25 of 39 with refractory anemia and RS (RARS), 26 of 45 (58%) of those with refractory cytopenia with...
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