TERT—regulation and roles in cancer formation

M Dratwa, B Wysoczańska, P Łacina, T Kubik… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) is a catalytic subunit of telomerase. Telomerase
complex plays a key role in cancer formation by telomere dependent or independent …

Germline risk of clonal haematopoiesis

AJ Silver, AG Bick, MR Savona - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Clonal haematopoiesis (CH) is a common, age-related expansion of blood cells with
somatic mutations that is associated with an increased risk of haematological malignancies …

Telomere maintenance mechanisms in cancer

T Bordeira Gaspar, A Sá, JM Lopes… - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Tumour cells can adopt telomere maintenance mechanisms (TMMs) to avoid telomere
shortening, an inevitable process due to successive cell divisions. In most tumour cells …

Clonal hematopoiesis: somatic mutations in blood cells and atherosclerosis

P Natarajan, S Jaiswal, S Kathiresan - Circulation: Genomic and …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
The most important prognostic factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is age,
independent of all other recognized risk factors. Recently, exome sequence analyses …

Clonal hematopoiesis: pre-cancer PLUS

AJ Silver, S Jaiswal - Advances in cancer research, 2019 - Elsevier
Clonal hematopoiesis is a common, age-related process in which a somatically mutated
hematopoietic precursor gives rise to a genetically distinct subpopulation in the blood. This …

Genetic polymorphisms associated with telomere length and risk of develo** myeloproliferative neoplasms

M Giaccherini, A Macauda, N Sgherza, J Sainz… - Blood cancer …, 2020 - nature.com
Telomere length measured in leukocyte (LTL) has been found to be associated with the risk
of develo** several cancer types, including myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). LTL is …

Germline-somatic JAK2 interactions are associated with clonal expansion in myelofibrosis

DW Brown, W Zhou, Y Wang, K Jones, W Luo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Myelofibrosis is a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) with high risk for progression to
acute myeloid leukemia. Our integrated genomic analysis of up to 933 myelofibrosis cases …

MECOM, HBS1L‐MYB, THRB‐RARB, JAK2, and TERT polymorphisms defining the genetic predisposition to myeloproliferative neoplasms: A study on 939 patients

AP Trifa, C Bănescu, AS Bojan… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF)
are classical myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), characterized by specific somatic …

TERT Gene rs2736100 and rs2736098 polymorphisms are associated with increased cancer risk: a meta-analysis

X Zhang, Y Chen, D Yan, J Han, L Zhu - Biochemical Genetics, 2022 - Springer
Abnormal telomerase activity plays a key role in the development of carcinogenesis. The
variants rs2736100 and rs2736098 of the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene …

Second cancer onset in myeloproliferative neoplasms: What, when, why?

C Cumbo, L Anelli, A Zagaria, N Coccaro… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The risk of develo** a solid cancer is a major issue arising in the disease course of a
myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN). Although the connection between the two diseases has …