JAK2V617F mutational status and allele burden have little influence on clinical phenotype and prognosis in patients with post-polycythemia vera and post-essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis

Haematologica

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 144-146

  Guglielmelli, Paola ^a,b   Barosi, Giovanni ^c   Pieri, Lisa ^a,b   Antonioli, Elisabetta ^a,b   Bosi, Alberto ^a,b   Vannucchi, Alessandro M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO TOSCANO TUMORI   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Essential thrombocythemia; JAK2V617F mutation; Myelofibrosis; Polycythemia vera

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLELE; CD34 SELECTION; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYELOFIBROSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOCYTHEMIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JANUS KINASE 2; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOCYTHEMIA, ESSENTIAL; VALINE;

EID: 58149240151     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.13721     Document Type: Letter

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