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Vijay Sankaran

Vijay Sankaran

Physician-scientist, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Boston Children's Hospital

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MSI2 protective variant against blood cancer discovered

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Senior author of the Science paper

For decades, cancer genetics meant finding mutations that raise risk. Now scientists have found one that lowers it. A variant in the MSI2 gene reduces the risk of blood cancers by up to 30% in people who carry two copiesโ€”the first protective genetic variant identified against myeloid malignancies.

Updated Jan 28