Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Loss of Asxl2 leads to myeloid malignancies in mice

  • Jianping Li,
  • Fuhong He,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Shi Chen,
  • Hui Shi,
  • Yanling Sun,
  • Ying Guo,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Na Man,
  • Sarah Greenblatt,
  • Zhaomin Li,
  • Zhengyu Guo,
  • Yuan Zhou,
  • Lan Wang,
  • Lluis Morey,
  • Sion Williams,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Qun-Tian Wang,
  • Stephen D. Nimer,
  • Peng Yu,
  • Qian-Fei Wang,
  • Mingjiang Xu,
  • Feng-Chun Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15456
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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ASXL2 mutations are mostly found in a subset of leukemia patients with certain genetic aberrations; however the role of this protein in normal hematopoiesis and related malignancies is still unclear. Here the authors use a knock-out mouse model to uncover the role of Asxl2in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis.