MDS/AML with del5q: An acquired "laminopathy"?

Papapetrou, Eirini P · Cell Stem Cell · 2022

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Abstract

In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Reilly et al. propose loss of LMNB1, the gene encoding lamin B1, often deleted in MDS/AML, as a novel genetic basis for the abnormal nuclear shape of neutrophils (known as acquired Pelger-Huët anomaly) and a cause of HSPC fate alterations promoting malignancy.

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