Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Clonal competition within complex evolutionary hierarchies shapes AML over time

  • Carl Sandén,
  • Henrik Lilljebjörn,
  • Christina Orsmark Pietras,
  • Rasmus Henningsson,
  • Karim H. Saba,
  • Niklas Landberg,
  • Hanna Thorsson,
  • Sofia von Palffy,
  • Pablo Peña-Martinez,
  • Carl Högberg,
  • Marianne Rissler,
  • David Gisselsson,
  • Vladimir Lazarevic,
  • Gunnar Juliusson,
  • Helena Ågerstam,
  • Thoas Fioretos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14106-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Clonal evolution and heterogeneity has strong implications for treatment response in acute myeloid leukemia. Here, the authors use patient derived in vivo modelling to highlight the complex clonal and evolutionary dynamics underpinning acute myeloid leukemia progression.