Nico Gagelmann, MD, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, comments on a study which investigated the impact the presence of ASXL1 mutation variants had on disease outcomes in patients with primary myelofibrosis or post polycythemia vera/essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis (PPV/PET MF) at the time of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). ASXL1 mutations were associated with poorer outcomes in these patients post-HSCT (as has been previously documented), however no variants of the mutation had a higher association with poor prognosis. This interview took place at the 65th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, held in San Diego, CA.
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