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Editorial
. 2022 May 5;3(3):173-175.
doi: 10.1158/2643-3230.BCD-22-0004.

Bedside to Bench and Back: Identifying a New Clinically Relevant Driver in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Robert P Hasserjian  1 , Valentina Nardi  1
Affiliations
Editorial

Bedside to Bench and Back: Identifying a New Clinically Relevant Driver in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Robert P Hasserjian et al. Blood Cancer Discov. .

Abstract

In this issue of Blood Cancer Discovery, Umeda and colleagues identify and comprehensively analyze a novel recurrent UBTF mutation (tandem duplications) in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. Acute myeloid leukemia cases with UBTF tandem duplications display distinctive biologic features, including association with FLT3-ITD and WT1 mutations and high-risk disease, and appear to represent a new genetic subtype of acute myeloid leukemia. See related article by Umeda et al., p. 194 (7).

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  • Integrated Genomic Analysis Identifies UBTF Tandem Duplications as a Recurrent Lesion in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
    Umeda M, Ma J, Huang BJ, Hagiwara K, Westover T, Abdelhamed S, Barajas JM, Thomas ME, Walsh MP, Song G, Tian L, Liu Y, Chen X, Kolekar P, Tran Q, Foy SG, Maciaszek JL, Kleist AB, Leonti AR, Ju B, Easton J, Wu H, Valentine V, Valentine MB, Liu YC, Ries RE, Smith JL, Parganas E, Iacobucci I, Hiltenbrand R, Miller J, Myers JR, Rampersaud E, Rahbarinia D, Rusch M, Wu G, Inaba H, Wang YC, Alonzo TA, Downing JR, Mullighan CG, Pounds S, Babu MM, Zhang J, Rubnitz JE, Meshinchi S, Ma X, Klco JM. Umeda M, et al. Blood Cancer Discov. 2022 May 5;3(3):194-207. doi: 10.1158/2643-3230.BCD-21-0160. Blood Cancer Discov. 2022. PMID: 35176137 Free PMC article.

Comment on

  • Integrated Genomic Analysis Identifies UBTF Tandem Duplications as a Recurrent Lesion in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
    Umeda M, Ma J, Huang BJ, Hagiwara K, Westover T, Abdelhamed S, Barajas JM, Thomas ME, Walsh MP, Song G, Tian L, Liu Y, Chen X, Kolekar P, Tran Q, Foy SG, Maciaszek JL, Kleist AB, Leonti AR, Ju B, Easton J, Wu H, Valentine V, Valentine MB, Liu YC, Ries RE, Smith JL, Parganas E, Iacobucci I, Hiltenbrand R, Miller J, Myers JR, Rampersaud E, Rahbarinia D, Rusch M, Wu G, Inaba H, Wang YC, Alonzo TA, Downing JR, Mullighan CG, Pounds S, Babu MM, Zhang J, Rubnitz JE, Meshinchi S, Ma X, Klco JM. Umeda M, et al. Blood Cancer Discov. 2022 May 5;3(3):194-207. doi: 10.1158/2643-3230.BCD-21-0160. Blood Cancer Discov. 2022. PMID: 35176137 Free PMC article.

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