Article
Iron homeostasis governs erythroid phenotype in Polycythemia Vera
2022-05-04
Abstract excerpt
Polycythemia Vera (PV) is a myeloproliferative neoplasm driven by activating mutations in JAK2 that result in unrestrained erythrocyte production, increasing patients’ hematocrit and hemoglobin concentration, placing them at risk of life-threatening thrombotic events. Our GWAS of 440 PV cases and 403,351 controls utilising UK Biobank data found that SNPs in HFE known to cause hemochromatosis are highly associate...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 26e2ae8f-e13f-5f1d-90f5-2e442b38d37c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.05.03.490556
