La herencia monogénica y poligénica se convierten en instrumentos para la selección clonal

Po-Ru Loh1,2, Giulio Genovese3,4,5, Steven A McCarroll6,7,8

  • 1Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. poruloh@broadinstitute.org.

Nature
|June 26, 2020
PubMed
Resumen

La hematopoyesis clonal relacionada con la edad, impulsada por mutaciones adquiridas, aumenta el riesgo de cáncer de sangre. Las variantes genéticas heredadas que interactúan con estas mutaciones crean desafíos para la producción de células sanguíneas de por vida.

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