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ReviewThe Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD2006

Molecular diagnosis of mast cell disorders: a paper from the 2005 William Beaumont Hospital Symposium on Molecular Pathology.

Cem Akin

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Review in The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Mastocytosis.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
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  9. The need for United States-based guidelines for myeloproliferative neoplasms.Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN · 2015
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  10. Primary mast cell disorders in children.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2013
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  19. Mastocytosis: a disease of the hematopoietic stem cell.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2008
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cem AkinUniversity of Michigan, 4220-D MSRB-3, Box 0638, 1150 West Medical Center Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0638, USA. cemakin@umich.edu
Regional West Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mastocytosis is a disease characterized by pathological mast cell accumulation and activation in tissues. Most patients with mastocytosis exhibit the D816V point mutation in the tyrosine kinase domain of the transmembrane receptor protein Kit, leading to its constitutive activation in bone marrow or lesional skin tissue. Detection of a codon 816 c-kit mutation is included as a minor diagnostic criterion in the World Health Organization's diagnostic criteria for systemic mastocytosis. Determining mutational status of the c-kit gene also has pharmacogenomic implications in patients considered for investigational mast cell cytoreductive therapies. This article reviews diagnostic and therapeutic implications of c-kit mutations as well as other less common molecular abnormalities observed in mast cell disease.

Indexed as

Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4Molecular Diagnostic TechniquesAdultBase SequenceBiomarkersBone MarrowChildChromosome DeletionHumansMast CellsMastocytosisMolecular Sequence DataProto-Oncogene Proteins c-kitBiomarkersProto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit

Identifiers

PMID16931579
PMCPMC1867614
OpenAlexW1591835698

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