Differing clinical features between Japanese and Caucasian patients with myelodysplastic syndromes: Analysis from the International Working Group for Prognosis of MDS

Patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) show heterogeneous clinical features with variation in ineffective hematopoiesis, morphological dysplasia, and progression to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) [1]. MDS arises from abnormal hematopoietic stem cells, with detectable somatic mutations in virtually all patients [2,3], and recent studies also showed that germline mutations are found in a portion of MDS [4,5]. These results clearly demonstrate that the genomic status is highly influential on clinical features of MDS [3].
Source: Leukemia Research - Category: Hematology Authors: Tags: Research paper Source Type: research