The Harmful Consequences of Increased Fitness in Hematopoietic Stem Cells.

Cell Stem Cell

Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, IL 60637, US. Electronic address:

Published: November 2018

Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) describes clonal selection of a hematopoietic stem cell with a somatic mutation that confers increased fitness, influenced by a selective environment such as aging, inflammation, or therapeutic exposure. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Hsu et al. (2018) explore the role of cytotoxic therapy in disease-relevant CHIP.

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