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Cohesin Mutations in Myeloid Malignancies.
Trends in cancer - 1 Apr 2017
Fisher Joseph B, McNulty Maureen, Burke Michael J, Crispino John D, Rao Sridhar
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a hematologic malignancy with a poor prognosis. Recent genome-wide sequencing studies have identified frequent mutations in genes encoding members of the cohesin complex. Mutations in cohesin contribute to myeloid malignancies by conferring enhanced self-renewal of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells but the mechanisms behind this phenotype have not been fully elucidated. Of...
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