Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia - A bona fide RASopathy syndrome.

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Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a pediatric myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm overlap syndrome with sustained peripheral blood monocytosis, aggressive features, and poor outcomes. In >90% of cases JMML is driven by germline or somatic mutations involving the canonical RAS pathway (PTPN11, NRAS, CBL, KRAS and NF1), with somatic mutations/alterations in RAS pathway genes (second hit), SETBP1,...

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