Constitutional SAMD9L mutations cause familial myelodysplastic syndrome and transient monosomy 7

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Familial myelodysplastic syndromes arise from haploinsufficiency of genes involved in hematopoiesis and are primarily associated with early-onset disease. Here we describe a familial syndrome in seven patients from four unrelated pedigrees presenting with myelodysplastic syndrome and loss of chromosome 7/7q. Their median age at diagnosis was 2.1 years (range, 1–42). All patients presented with thrombocytopenia...

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