Tetsuichi Yoshizato, Bogdan Dumitriu, Kohei Hosokawa, Hideki Makishima, Kenichi Yoshida, Danielle Townsley, Aiko Sato-Otsubo, Yusuke Sato, Delong Liu, Hiromichi Suzuki, Colin O Wu, Yuichi Shiraishi, Michael J Clemente, Keisuke Kataoka, Yusuke Shiozawa, Yusuke Okuno, Kenichi Chiba, Hiroko Tanaka, Yasunobu Nagata, Takamasa Katagiri, Ayana Kon, Masashi Sanada, Phillip Scheinberg, Satoru Miyano, Jaroslaw P Maciejewski, Shinji Nakao, Neal S Young, Seishi Ogawa
BACKGROUND: In patients with acquired aplastic anemia, destruction of hematopoietic cells by the immune system leads to pancytopenia. Patients have a response to immunosuppressive therapy, but myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia develop in about 15% of the patients, usually many months to years after the diagnosis of aplastic anemia. METHODS: We performed next-generation sequencing and array-based karyotyping using 668 blood samples obtained from 439 patients with aplastic anemia...
July 2, 2015: New England Journal of Medicine