Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Progression of Myelodysplastic Syndrome
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Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis presenting with peripheral cytopenias in combination with a hyperplastic bone marrow. MDS patients have an increased risk of disease evolution to acute leukemia. Strong efforts have been made to gain further insights into the pathobiology of MDS. Development and progression of MDS to acute myeloid leukemia is suggested to be a multistep alteration to hematopoietic stem cells consisting of class I and class II alterations: the former targeting genes that are involved in signal transduction (e.g., FLT3, RAS and KIT), whereas the latter affect transcription factors (e.g., RUNX, RARA, EVI1 and WT1). These alterations consist of not only genomic mutations but also epigenetic aberrations, which can lead to reversible gene silencing. However, whether numerical and structural alterations of chromosomes and/or single genes or epigenetic changes represent the initiating event or, more likely, secondary events remains part of the discussion. Accumulation of such defects may finally cause the leukemic transformation of MDS.
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