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Volume 352:291-292 January 20, 2005 Number 3
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NPM Mutations in Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
Silvia Grisendi, Ph.D., and Pier Paolo Pandolfi, M.D., Ph.D.

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Nucleophosmin (NPM) is a multifunctional phosphoprotein to which both tumor-suppressor and oncogenic functions have been attributed. Chromosomal translocations involving the NPM1 gene occur not infrequently in myeloid and lymphoid cancers. The NPM1 gene rearranges with the retinoic acid receptor {alpha} (RAR{alpha}) gene in acute promyelocytic leukemia and with the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene in a high percentage of anaplastic large-cell lymphomas. Rearrangements with the myeloid leukemia factor 1 (MLF1) gene occur in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), chronic myelogenous leukemia, and myelodysplasia.1,2,3 As a consequence of these translocations, the rearranged NPM1 allele encodes a fusion . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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From the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.


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