Ferrata Storti Foundation, Haematologica, 12(94), p. 1676-1681
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2009.011205
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Acquired somatic deletions and loss-of-function mutations in one or several codons of the TET2 (Ten-Eleven Translocation-2) gene were recently identified in hematopoietic cells from patients with myeloid neoplasms. This study shows that TET2 mutations are more frequent in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia than in other subgroups of myeloid neoplasms studied so far.