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. 2014 Jun 16;25(6):713-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2014.06.001.

MDS is a stem cell disorder after all

Siddhartha Jaiswal  1 , Benjamin L Ebert  2
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MDS is a stem cell disorder after all

Siddhartha Jaiswal et al. Cancer Cell. .
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Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) has long been presumed to be a stem cell disorder, but rigorous formal proof has been lacking. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Woll and colleagues demonstrate that driver mutations occurring in MDS definitively occur in cells with a stem cell phenotype.

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  • Myelodysplastic syndromes are propagated by rare and distinct human cancer stem cells in vivo.
    Woll PS, Kjällquist U, Chowdhury O, Doolittle H, Wedge DC, Thongjuea S, Erlandsson R, Ngara M, Anderson K, Deng Q, Mead AJ, Stenson L, Giustacchini A, Duarte S, Giannoulatou E, Taylor S, Karimi M, Scharenberg C, Mortera-Blanco T, Macaulay IC, Clark SA, Dybedal I, Josefsen D, Fenaux P, Hokland P, Holm MS, Cazzola M, Malcovati L, Tauro S, Bowen D, Boultwood J, Pellagatti A, Pimanda JE, Unnikrishnan A, Vyas P, Göhring G, Schlegelberger B, Tobiasson M, Kvalheim G, Constantinescu SN, Nerlov C, Nilsson L, Campbell PJ, Sandberg R, Papaemmanuil E, Hellström-Lindberg E, Linnarsson S, Jacobsen SE. Woll PS, et al. Cancer Cell. 2014 Jun 16;25(6):794-808. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2014.03.036. Epub 2014 May 15. Cancer Cell. 2014. PMID: 24835589

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