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What platelet threshold, if any, is your goal for cytoreduction in essential thrombocythemia?

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Hematology · Johns Hopkins University

An unusual feature of the myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) is that their driver mutations are gain-of-function, meaning that the basic MPN phenotype is the increased proliferation of normal circulating blood cells. This basic phenotype is modified by host genetic variation to create three genetica...

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