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Genome-scale technology driven advances to research into normal and malignant haematopoiesis.


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Authors

Göttgens, Berthold 

Abstract

Haematopoiesis or blood development has long served as a model system for adult stem cell biology. Moreover, when combined, the various cancers of the blood represent one of the commonest human malignancies. Large numbers of researchers have therefore dedicated their scientific careers to studying haematopoiesis for more than a century. Throughout this period, many new technologies have first been applied towards the study of blood cells, and the research fields of normal and malignant haematopoiesis have also been some of the earliest adopters of genome-scale technologies. This has resulted in significant new insights with implications ranging from basic biological mechanisms to patient diagnosis and prognosis and also produced lessons likely to be relevant for many other areas of biomedical research. This paper discusses the current state of play for a range of genome-scale applications within haemopoiesis research, including gene expression profiling, ChIP-sequencing, genomewide association analysis, and cancer genome sequencing. A concluding outlook section explores likely future areas of progress as well as potential technological and educational bottlenecks.

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Keywords

0604 Genetics, Biomedical, Clinical Medicine and Science, Stem Cell Research, Cancer, Biotechnology, Genetics, Human Genome, Cancer

Journal Title

Scientifica (Cairo)

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Journal ISSN

2090-908X
2090-908X

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Publisher

Hindawi Limited
Sponsorship
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (7001-12)
Cancer Research Uk (None)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/I00050X/1)
National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (G0900729/1)