DNA Hydroxymethylation Profiling Reveals that WT1 Mutations Result in Loss of TET2 Function in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Summary: Somatic mutations in IDH1/IDH2 and TET2 result in impaired TET2-mediated conversion of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC). The observation that WT1 inactivating mutations anticorrelate with TET2/IDH1/IDH2 mutations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) led us to hypothesize...

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Main Authors: Raajit Rampal, Altuna Alkalin, Jozef Madzo, Aparna Vasanthakumar, Elodie Pronier, Jay Patel, Yushan Li, Jihae Ahn, Omar Abdel-Wahab, Alan Shih, Chao Lu, Patrick S. Ward, Jennifer J. Tsai, Todd Hricik, Valeria Tosello, Jacob E. Tallman, Xinyang Zhao, Danette Daniels, Qing Dai, Luisa Ciminio, Iannis Aifantis, Chuan He, Francois Fuks, Martin S. Tallman, Adolfo Ferrando, Stephen Nimer, Elisabeth Paietta, Craig B. Thompson, Jonathan D. Licht, Christopher E. Mason, Lucy A. Godley, Ari Melnick, Maria E. Figueroa, Ross L. Levine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-12-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124714009589