Molecular Cytogenetics (Oct 2018)

Rare gene fusion rearrangement SPTNB1-PDGFRB in an atypical myeloproliferative neoplasm

  • Vanessa Fiorini Furtado,
  • Neeraj Y. Saini,
  • William Walsh,
  • Venu Bathini,
  • Patricia M. Miron

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13039-018-0405-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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Abstract The 2016 revision to the World Health Organization classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia recognizes a distinct class of myeloid and lymphoid tumors with eosinophilia-related proliferations associated with specific gene rearrangements, one of which involves rearrangements of platelet-derived growth factor receptor B (PDGFRB) gene. We report a case of a rare PDGFRB rearrangement with SPTNB1 (spectrin beta, nonerythrocytic 1) that presented as atypical myeloproliferative neoplasm.

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