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[Role of ASXL1 mutation in myeloid malignancies].
Zhongguo shi yan xue ye xue za zhi - 1 Aug 2014
Sheng Meng-Yao, Zhou Yuan, Xu Ming-Jiang, Yang Feng-Chun
Abstract excerpt
Additional sex comb-like 1 ( ASXL1) is an enhancer of Trithorax and Polycomb family, which are necessary for the maintenance of stable repression of homeotic and other loci. Recently, alterations of ASXL1 gene were identified in the hematopoietic cells from patients with a variety of myeloid malignancies, including chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML, 43% of cases), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS, 20%),...
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