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Discovering early molecular determinants of leukemogenesis.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bagby, Grover |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Truncating mutations of the G-CSF receptor are found during disease course in nearly half of all patients with severe congenital neutropenia. In this issue of the JCI, Liu et al. demonstrate that these mutations confer a competitive clonal advantage upon HSCs in mice and that the advantage is conditional because it is observed only in the presence of the ligand G-CSF (see the related article beginning on page 946). Once activated, the mutant receptor requires the function of Stat5 in order to effect clonal expansion of this stem cell population. The results support the notion that early molecular steps in this and other neoplastic processes represent adaptations in which, through somatic mutations, "unfit" stem cells gain a measure of fitness by altering their relationships with their microenvironment. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1172/JCI35109 |
| PubMed reference number | 18292805 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 118 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.jci.org/articles/view/35109/version/2/pdf/render |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI35109 |
| Journal | The Journal of clinical investigation |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
