Classical myeloproliferative diseases can be divided into Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia and Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative neoplasm. The driver mutations of the latter occur in the Janus kinase 2 or calreticulin genes. The coincidence of Philadelphia chromosome-negative and -positive myeloproliferative neoplasms in the same patient is exceptionally rare in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMutations of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 and 2 (IDH1/2) are genetic alterations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The aim of our study was to investigate the frequency and prognostic effect of IDH1/2 mutations together followed by an individual analysis of each substitution in a Hungarian cohort consisting of 376 patients with AML. IDH1(mut) and IDH2(mut) were mutually exclusive, detected in 8.
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