haematologica
Journal of the European Hematology Association
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Table of Contents
Volume 99, Issue 10: October 2014
Cover Figure
Balancing cell differentiation in the hematopoietic system – image accompanying the article by Zeddies et al. (page 1555).
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Editorials & Perspectives
1533
Should clinical hematologists put their microscopes on eBay?
Mars van’t Veer, et al.
1534
Disease severity in chronic graft-versus-host disease: doctors’ gut feeling versus biostatistics?
Gerard Socié
1536
Stem cell transplants for myelodysplastic syndromes: refining the outcome predictions
Austin John Barrett
Review Articles
1538
Three major uncertainties in the antibody therapy of cancer
George T. Stevenson
1547
Treatment of autoimmune hemolytic anemias
Alberto Zanella, et al.
Articles
Hematopoiesis
1555
MEIS1 regulates early erythroid and megakaryocytic cell fate
Sabrina Zeddies, et al.
 This article has a graphical abstract
1565
Krüppel-like transcription factors KLF1 and KLF2 have unique and coordinate roles in regulating embryonic erythroid
precursor maturation
Divya S. Vinjamur, et al.
Bone Marrow Failure
1574
Outcome of aplastic anemia in adolescence: a survey of the Severe Aplastic Anemia Working Party of the European Group for Blood
and Marrow Transplantation
Carlo Dufour, et al.
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
1582
Impact of the International Prognostic Scoring System cytogenetic risk groups on the outcome of patients with primary myelodysplastic
syndromes undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation from human leukocyte antigen-identical siblings: a retrospective analysis
of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation-Chronic Malignancies Working Party
Francesco Onida, et al.
 Read the accompanying editorial on page 1536
 This article has a graphical abstract
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Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
1591
The Sox4/Tcf7l1 axis promotes progression of BCR-ABL-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Haiqing Ma, et al.
 This article has a graphical abstract
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
1599
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the elderly: clinico-biological features, outcomes, and proposal of a prognostic model
Tycho Baumann, et al.
Plasma Cell Disorders
1605
The bone marrow of myeloma patients is steadily inhabited by a normal-sized pool of functional regulatory T cells irrespective
of the disease status
Myriam Foglietta, et al.
1611
Chromosome 1 abnormalities in elderly patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma treated with novel therapies
Simona Caltagirone, et al.
Stem Cell Trasplantation
1618
Association of severity of organ involvement with mortality and recurrent malignancy in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease
Yoshihiro Inamoto, et al.
 Read the accompanying editorial on page 1534
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1624
A randomized phase II trial of tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil and sirolimus after non-myeloablative unrelated donor transplantation
Brian Kornblit, et al.
1632
Phase IV open-label study of the efficacy and safety of deferasirox after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
Carlos Vallejo, et al.
Coagulation & its Disorders
1638
Evaluation of mean platelet volume as a predictive marker for cancer-associated venous thromboembolism during chemotherapy
Patrizia Ferroni, et al.
Letters to the Editor
Letters are available online only at www.haematologica.org/content/99/10.toc
e176
ETV6 mutation in a cohort of 970 patients with hematologic malignancies
Qinrong Wang, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e176
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Response to azacitidine is independent of p53 expression in higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes and secondary
acute myeloid leukemia
Catharina Müller-Thomas, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e179
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Clinical importance of different calreticulin gene mutation types in wild-type JAK2 essential thrombocythemia and myelofibrosis patients
Chun Qiao, et al.
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Anthracycline dose intensification improves molecular response and outcome of patients treated for core binding factor
acute myeloid leukemia
Thomas Prebet, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e185
e188
The activating STAT5B N642H mutation is a common abnormality in pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and confers
a higher risk of relapse
Obul R. Bandapalli, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e188
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Risk of esophageal cancer following radiotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma
Lindsay M. Morton, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e193
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A restricted IGHV gene repertoire in splenic marginal zone lymphoma is associated with autoimmune disorders
Gabriel Brisou, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e197
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Sequential treatment for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Fanconi anemia with acute myeloid leukemia
Alexis Talbot, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e199
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Erythrocytosis associated with a novel missense mutation in the BPGM gene
Nayia Petousi, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e201
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Mice over-expressing human erythropoietin indicate that erythropoietin enhances expression of its receptor via up-regulated
Gata1 and Tal1
Philipp Deindl, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e205
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NFE2 regulates transcription of multiple enzymes in the heme biosynthesis pathway
Lara Rheinemann, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e208
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Contribution of ADAMTS13 to the better cell engraftment efficacy in mouse model of bone marrow transplantation
Hideto Matsui, et al.
http://www.haematologica.org/content/99/10/e211
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