Genome-wide analyses of 200,453 individuals yield new insights into the causes and consequences of clonal hematopoiesis

SP Kar, PM Quiros, M Gu, T Jiang, J Mitchell… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), the clonal expansion of a blood stem cell and its progeny driven
by somatic driver mutations, affects over a third of people, yet remains poorly understood …

Genetics and epidemiology of mutational barcode-defined clonal hematopoiesis

SN Stacey, F Zink, GH Halldorsson, L Stefansdottir… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) arises when a substantial proportion of mature blood cells is
derived from a single hematopoietic stem cell lineage. Using whole-genome sequencing of …

Combined landscape of single-nucleotide variants and copy number alterations in clonal hematopoiesis

R Saiki, Y Momozawa, Y Nannya, MM Nakagawa… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) in apparently healthy individuals is implicated in the
development of hematological malignancies (HM) and cardiovascular diseases. Previous …

Germline risk of clonal haematopoiesis

AJ Silver, AG Bick, MR Savona - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Clonal haematopoiesis (CH) is a common, age-related expansion of blood cells with
somatic mutations that is associated with an increased risk of haematological malignancies …

Clonal hematopoiesis, with and without candidate driver mutations, is common in the elderly

F Zink, SN Stacey, GL Norddahl… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) arises when a substantial proportion of mature blood cells is
derived from a single dominant hematopoietic stem cell lineage. Somatic mutations in …

Discovering the drivers of clonal hematopoiesis

O Pich, I Reyes-Salazar, A Gonzalez-Perez… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mutations in genes that confer a selective advantage to hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)
drive clonal hematopoiesis (CH). While some CH drivers have been identified, the …

Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes

AG Bick, JS Weinstock, SK Nandakumar, CP Fulco… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Age is the dominant risk factor for most chronic human diseases, but the mechanisms
through which ageing confers this risk are largely unknown. The age-related acquisition of …

Prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of clonal hematopoiesis in individuals aged≥ 80 years

IA van Zeventer, JB Salzbrunn, AO de Graaf… - Blood …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), characterized by a fraction of peripheral blood cells carrying an
acquired genetic variant, emerges with age. Although in general CH is associated with …

Common and rare variant associations with clonal haematopoiesis phenotypes

MD Kessler, A Damask, S O'Keeffe, N Banerjee, D Li… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal haematopoiesis involves the expansion of certain blood cell lineages and has been
associated with ageing and adverse health outcomes,,,–. Here we use exome sequence …

Distinction of lymphoid and myeloid clonal hematopoiesis

A Niroula, A Sekar, MA Murakami, M Trinder… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) results from somatic genomic alterations that drive clonal
expansion of blood cells. Somatic gene mutations associated with hematologic …