Published 2015-05-01
“…Nicola Cascavilla,1 Valerio De Stefano,2 Fabrizio Pane,3 Alessandro Pancrazzi,4 Alessandra Iurlo,5 Marco Gobbi,6 Francesca Palandri,7 Giorgina Specchia,8 A Marina Liberati,9 Mariella D’Adda,10 Gianluca Gaidano,11 Rajmonda Fjerza,4 Heinrich Achenbach,12 Jonathan Smith,13 Paul Wilde,13 Alessandro M Vannucchi41Division of Hematology, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital, IRCCS, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy; 2Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy; 3Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery,
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy; 4Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; 5Oncohematology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy; 6IRCCS AOU San Martino, Genova, Italy; 7Department of Specialistic, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine, St Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; 8Unit of Hematology with Transplantation, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari, Bari, Italy; 9Ospedale Santa Maria, Terni, Italy; 10Division of Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliera Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy; 11Division of Hematology, Department of Translational Medicine, Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy; 12Research and Development, Shire GmbH, Eysins, Switzerland; 13Shire Pharmaceutical Development Ltd, Basingstoke, United KingdomAbstract: A JAK2(V617F) mutation is found in approximately 55% of patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET), and represents a key World Health Organization diagnostic criterion. …”
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