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When the good go bad: Mutant NPM1 in acute myeloid leukemia.
Blood reviews - 1 May 2018
Kunchala Preethi, Kuravi Sudhakiranmayi, Jensen Roy, McGuirk Joseph, Balusu Ramesh
Abstract excerpt
Nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1) is a nucleolar phosphoprotein that performs diverse biological functions including molecular chaperoning, ribosome biogenesis, DNA repair, and genome stability. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease, more than half of the AML cases exhibit normal karyotype (NK). Approximately 50-60 percent of patients with NK-AML carry NPM1 mutations which are characterized by cytoplasmic...
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