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Myelodysplastic Syndromes Diagnosis: What Is the Role of Molecular Testing?
Current hematologic malignancy reports - 1 Sept 2015
Bejar Rafael
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Diagnosing a myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) can be challenging. Somatic mutations are common in MDS and might have diagnostic utility in patients with idiopathic cytopenias of undetermined significance (ICUS). However, using mutations to diagnose MDS is complicated by several issues: (1) no gene is mutated in most cases, (2) no mutated gene is highly specific for MDS, (3) clonal hematopoiesis is common in older...
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