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Jyoti Nangalia, MBBChir, on MPN: A New Paradigm for the Development of Blood Cancer?

2020 ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition

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Jyoti Nangalia, MBBChir, of Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, discusses how her team used large-scale whole-genome sequencing to precisely time the origins of a blood cancer­­­­­ and measure how it grew. The information could provide opportunities for early diagnosis and intervention (Abstract LBA-1).



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