The genetics of myelodysplastic syndrome: from clonal haematopoiesis to secondary leukaemia

AS Sperling, CJ Gibson, BL Ebert - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a clonal disease that arises from the expansion of
mutated haematopoietic stem cells. In a spectrum of myeloid disorders ranging from clonal …

The genetics and mechanisms of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

L Belver, A Ferrando - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive haematological malignancy
derived from early T cell progenitors. In recent years genomic and transcriptomic studies …

Resistance to inflammation underlies enhanced fitness in clonal hematopoiesis

S Avagyan, JE Henninger, WP Mannherz, M Mistry… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Clonal hematopoiesis results from enhanced fitness of a mutant hematopoietic stem and
progenitor cell (HSPC), but how such clones expand is unclear. We developed a technique …

Granulopoiesis and granules of human neutrophils

JB Cowland, N Borregaard - Immunological reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Granules are essential for the ability of neutrophils to fulfill their role in innate immunity.
Granule membranes contain proteins that react to environmental cues directing neutrophils …

Interrogation of enhancer function by enhancer-targeting CRISPR epigenetic editing

K Li, Y Liu, H Cao, Y Zhang, Z Gu, X Liu, A Yu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tissue-specific gene expression requires coordinated control of gene-proximal and-distal
cis-regulatory elements (CREs), yet functional analysis of gene-distal CREs such as …

The ontogeny of a neutrophil: mechanisms of granulopoiesis and homeostasis

SM Lawrence, R Corriden, V Nizet - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Comprising the majority of leukocytes in humans, neutrophils are the first immune cells to
respond to inflammatory or infectious etiologies and are crucial participants in the proper …

Molecular biomarkers in acute myeloid leukemia

J Prada-Arismendy, JC Arroyave, S Röthlisberger - Blood reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common acute leukemia in adults. The
pathophysiology of this disease is just beginning to be understood at the cellular and …

RUNX transcription factors: orchestrators of development

R Mevel, JE Draper, M Lie-a-Ling, V Kouskoff… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT RUNX transcription factors orchestrate many different aspects of biology,
including basic cellular and developmental processes, stem cell biology and tumorigenesis …

MPLW515L Is a Novel Somatic Activating Mutation in Myelofibrosis with Myeloid Metaplasia

Y Pikman, BH Lee, T Mercher, E McDowell… - PLoS …, 2006 - journals.plos.org
Background The JAK2V617F allele has recently been identified in patients with
polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocytosis (ET), and myelofibrosis with myeloid …

Combinatorial transcriptional control in blood stem/progenitor cells: genome-wide analysis of ten major transcriptional regulators

NK Wilson, SD Foster, X Wang, K Knezevic, J Schütte… - Cell stem cell, 2010 - cell.com
Combinatorial transcription factor (TF) interactions control cellular phenotypes and,
therefore, underpin stem cell formation, maintenance, and differentiation. Here, we report the …