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NPM1 gene mutation in Egyptian patients with cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia.
Clinical laboratory - 1 Jan 2014
Sofan Mamdouh A, Elmasry Samir, Salem Dalia A, Bazid Mohamed M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Nucleophosmin1 (NPM1) protein encoded from the NPM1 gene is a ubiquitously expressed nucleolar phoshoprotein which shuttles continuously between the nucleus and cytoplasm. NPM1 protein plays an important role in cell proliferation and apoptosis. NPM1 gene mutations at exon 12 represent the hallmark of a large sub-group of cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia (CN-AML) patients worldwide....
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