CALR: the new biomarker for myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) research
Anatomy - Pathology
March 21, 2017Polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia and primary myelofibrosis, the three major forms of MPN, are most often associated with Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) mutations. However, a large subset of MPN are JAK2 V617F-negative.
Two large scale studies on MPN showed that many of the JAK2 V617F-negative MPNs were positive for both somatic Type I and Type 2 mutations in calreticulin (CALR).
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