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Progression to polythythemia vera from familial thrombocytosis with germline JAK2 R867Q mutation

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We thank Thomas Mayers, assistant professor of English for Medical Purposes, Medical English Communications Center, University of Tsukuba, for his editorial assistance.

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  1. Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Koichiro Maie, Yasuhisa Yokoyama, Takayasu Kato, Mamiko Sakata-Yanagimoto & Shigeru Chiba

  2. Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan

    Koichiro Maie, Yasuhisa Yokoyama, Takayasu Kato, Mamiko Sakata-Yanagimoto & Shigeru Chiba

  3. Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Yoko Yano & Masayuki Noguchi

  4. Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Yasuhito Nannya & Seishi Ogawa

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KM and YY wrote the manuscript. KM performed the experiments using patient samples. YN and SO performed panel sequencing for 67 genes. YY and MN performed histopathological analysis. YY, TK, MSY, and SC supervised this research. All authors approved the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Shigeru Chiba.

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This study was approved by ethics committee in University of Tsukuba Hospital, and informed consent was obtained from the patient and her family members before the analysis.

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Maie, K., Yokoyama, Y., Yano, Y. et al. Progression to polythythemia vera from familial thrombocytosis with germline JAK2 R867Q mutation. Ann Hematol 97, 737–739 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-017-3209-1

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