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Leuk Lymphoma 2022 Sep; 63 (9):2243-2246 Epub 2022 May 04 View PubMed Horak P, Griffith M, Danos AM, Pitel BA, Madhavan S, Liu X, Chow C, Williams H, Carmody L, Barrow-Laing L, Rieke D, Kreutzfeldt S, Stenzinger A, Tamborero D, Benary M, Rajagopal PS, Ida CM, Lesmana H, Satgunaseelan L, Merker JD, Tolstorukov MY, Campregher PV, Warner JL, Rao S, Natesan M, Shen H, Venstrom J, Roy S, Tao K, Kanagal-Shamanna R, Xu X, Ritter DI, Pagel K, Krysiak K, Dubuc A, Akkari YM, Li XS, Lee J, King I, Raca G, Wagner AH, Li MM, Plon SE, Kulkarni S, Griffith OL, Chakravarty D, Sonkin D. Standards for the classification of pathogenicity of somatic variants in cancer (oncogenicity): Joint recommendations of Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen), Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC), and Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC). Genet Med. 2022 Sep; 24 (9):1991 View PubMed Macke EL, Meyer RG, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Greipp PT, Xu X, Baughn LB, Shafer DA, He RR, Peterson JF. 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Guiding the global evolution of cytogenetic testing for hematologic malignancies. Blood. 2022 Apr 14; 139 (15):2273-2284 View PubMed Begna KH, Xu X, Gangat N, Alkhateeb H, Patnaik MM, Al-Kali A, Elliott MA, Hogan WJ, Litzow MR, Hook CC, Wolanskyj-Spinner AP, Mangaonkar A, He R, Pardanani A, Shah M, Ketterling RP, Tefferi A. Core-binding factor acute myeloid leukemia: long-term outcome of 70 patients uniformly treated with "7+3". Blood Cancer J 2022 Apr 7; 12 (4):55 Epub 2022 Apr 07 View PubMed Koleilat A, McGarrah PW, Olteanu H, Van Dyke DL, Smadbeck JB, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Hoppman NL, Xu X, Ketterling RP, Greipp PT, Baughn LB, Patnaik MS, Peterson JF. Utilizing next-generation sequencing to characterize a case of acute myeloid leukemia with t(4;12)(q12;p13) in the absence of ETV6/CHIC2 and ETV6/PDGFRA gene fusions. 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Blood Adv. 2021 Jul 27; 5 (14):2890-2900 View PubMed Berg HE, Blackburn PR, Smadbeck JB, Swanson KE, Rice CS, Webley MR, Johnson SH, Vasmatzis G, Xu X, Greipp PT, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Baughn LB, Boston CH, Sutton LM, Peterson JF. Detection of a Cryptic EP300/ZNF384 Gene Fusion by Chromosomal Microarray and Next-Generation Sequencing Studies in a Pediatric Patient with B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Lab Med. 2021 May 4; 52 (3):297-302 View PubMed Pitel BA, Sharma N, Zepeda-Mendoza C, Smadbeck JB, Pearce KE, Cook JM, Vasmatzis G, Sachs Z, Kanagal-Shamanna R, Viswanatha D, Xiao S, Jenkins RB, Xu X, Hoppman NL, Ketterling RP, Peterson JF, Greipp PT, Baughn LB. Myeloid malignancies with 5q and 7q deletions are associated with extreme genomic complexity, biallelic TP53 variants, and very poor prognosis. 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