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Significance of myelodysplastic syndrome-associated somatic variants in the evaluation of patients with pancytopenia and idiopathic cytopenias of undetermined significance.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Sept 2016
Fernandez-Pol Sebastian, Ma Lisa, Ohgami Robert S, Arber Daniel A
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we set out to evaluate the frequency of mutations in 20 myelodysplastic syndrome-associated genes in 53 individuals with pancytopenia in which bone marrow evaluation failed to meet standard criteria for a diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome. These idiopathic pancytopenia cases were associated with no specific cause for their pancytopenia (n=28), aplastic anemia (n=13), pancytopenia attributable...
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