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COLD-PCR and innovative microarray substrates for detecting and genotyping MPL exon 10 W515 substitutions.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Dec 2012
Brisci Angela, Damin Francesco, Pietra Daniela, Galbiati Silvia, Boggi Sabrina, Casetti Ilaria, Rumi Elisa, Chiari Marcella, Cazzola Mario, Ferrari Maurizio, Cremonesi Laura
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) include polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and primary myelofibrosis (PMF). Somatic mutations in exon 10 of the MPL (myeloproliferative leukemia virus oncogene) gene, mainly substitutions encoding W515 variants, have recently been described in a minority of patients with ET or PMF. We optimized analytically sensitive methods for detecting and...
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