Genetic features of myelodysplastic syndrome and aplastic anemia in pediatric and young adult patients.

This study shows that while any single specific bone marrow failure/myelodysplastic syndrome genetic disorder is rare, screening for these disorders in aggregate identifies a significant subset of patients with inherited bone marrow failure/myelodysplastic syndrome.
PMID: 27418648 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Haematologica - July 13, 2016 Category: Hematology Authors: Keel SB, Scott A, Sanchez-Bonilla M, Ho PA, Gulsuner S, Pritchard CC, Abkowitz JL, King MC, Walsh T, Shimamura A Tags: Haematologica Source Type: research