The JAK2 V617F activating tyrosine kinase mutation is an infrequent event in both "atypical" myeloproliferative disorders and myelodysplastic syndromes. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A somatic mutation in the JH2 autoinhibitory domain of the Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) tyrosine kinase was recently described in polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia. The prevalence of this mutation in either "atypical" myeloproliferative disorders (MPDs) or the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) is unknown. Bone marrow-derived genomic DNA from 245 patients--119 with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), 101 with MDS, 11 with hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES), 8 with systemic mastocytosis (SM), and 6 with chronic neutrophilic leukemia (CNL)--was screened for the JAK2 V617F mutation. A mutant allele was detected in 11 patients: 3 with CMML (3%), 5 with MDS (5%), 2 with SM, and 1 with CNL. Interestingly, one of the patients with SM and the patient with CNL with JAK2 V617F had a history of lymphoma, and this patient with SM also had associated myelofibrosis and CMML. The current observation strengthens the specific association between JAK2 V617F and classic MPD, but also suggests an infrequent occurrence in other myeloid disorders.

publication date

  • April 28, 2005

Research

keywords

  • Mutation, Missense
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Myeloproliferative Disorders
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC1895198

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 21344440357

PubMed ID

  • 15860661

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 106

issue

  • 4