单基因和多基因遗传成为克隆选择的工具

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
概括

年龄相关的克隆造血,由获得的突变驱动,增加了血液癌症的风险. 与这些突变相互作用的遗传基因变异为终身血细胞生产带来挑战.

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