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Mi X, Penson A, Abdel-Wahab O, Mailankody S. Genetic Basis of Relapse after GPRC5D-Targeted CAR T Cells. N Engl J Med. 2023 Oct 12;389(15):1435-1437. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2308544. PMID: 37819961.

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North K, Benbarche S, Liu B, Pangallo J, Chen S, Stahl M, Bewersdorf JP, Stanley RF, Erickson C, Cho H, Pineda JMB, Thomas JD, Polaski JT, Belleville AE, Gabel AM, Udy DB, Humbert O, Kiem HP, Abdel-Wahab O (co-corresponding), Bradley RK (co-corresponding). Synthetic introns enable splicing factor mutation-dependent targeting of cancer cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2022 Mar 3. doi: 10.1038/s41587-022-01224-2. Epub ahead of print.

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Lu SX, De Neef E, Thomas JD, Sabio E, Rousseau B, Gigoux M, Knorr DA, Greenbaum B, Elhanati Y, Hogg SJ, Chow A, Ghosh A, Xie A, Zamarin D, Cui D, Erickson C, Singer M, Cho H, Wang E, Lu B, Durham BH, Shah H, Chowell D, Gabel AM, Shen Y, Liu J, Jin J, Rhodes MC, Taylor RE, Molina H, Wolchok JD, Merghoub T, Diaz LA Jr, Abdel-Wahab O (co-corresponding; Lead Contact), Bradley RK (co-corresponding). Pharmacologic modulation of RNA splicing enhances anti-tumor immunity. Cell. 2021 Jun 18:S0092-8674(21)00690-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.05.038. Epub ahead of print.

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Taylor J, Donoghue MT, Ho C, Petrova-Drus K, Al-Ahmadie HA, Funt SA, Zhang Y, Aypar U, Rao P, Chavan SS, Haddadin M, Tamari R, Giralt S, Tallman MS, Rampal RK, Baez P, Kappagantula R, Kosuri S, Dogan A, Tickoo SK, Reuter VE, Bosl GJ, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Solit DB, Taylor BS, Feldman DR, Abdel-Wahab O. Germ cell tumors and associated hematologic malignancies evolve from a common shared precursor. J Clin Invest. 2020 Dec 1;130(12):6668-6676. doi: 10.1172/JCI139682. PMCID: PMC7685753.

Taylor J, Mi X, North KD, Binder M, Penson A, Lasho TL, Knorr K, Haddadin M, Liu B, Pangallo J, Benbarche S, Wiseman DH, Tefferi A, Halene S, Liang Y, Patnaik MM, Bradley RK, Abdel-Wahab O. Single-cell genomics reveals the genetic and molecular bases for escape from mutational epistasis in myeloid neoplasms. Blood. 2020 Jul 8:blood.2020006868. doi: 10.1182/blood.2020006868. Epub ahead of print.

Yoshimi A, Lin KT, Wiseman DH, Rahman MA, Pastore A, Wang B, Lee SC, Micol JB, Zhang XJ, de Botton S, Penard-Lacronique V, Stein EM, Cho H, Miles RE, Inoue D, Albrecht TR, Somervaille TCP, Batta K, Amaral F, Simeoni F, Wilks DP, Cargo C, Intlekofer AM, Levine RL, Dvinge H, Bradley RK, Wagner EJ, Krainer AR, Abdel-Wahab O. Coordinated alterations in RNA splicing and epigenetic regulation drive leukaemogenesis. Nature. 2019 Oct;574(7777):273-277. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1618-0. Epub 2019 Oct 2. PMCID: PMC6858560.

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Taylor J, Sendino M, Gorelick AN, Pastore A, Chang MT, Penson AV, Gavrila EI, Stewart C, Melnik EM, Herrejon Chavez F, Bitner L, Yoshimi A, Lee SC, Inoue D, Liu B, Zhang XJ, Mato AR, Dogan A, Kharas MG, Chen Y, Wang D, Soni RK, Hendrickson RC, Prieto G, Rodriguez JA, Taylor BS, Abdel-Wahab O. Altered nuclear export signal recognition as a driver of oncogenesis. Cancer Discov. 2019 Jul 8. pii: CD-19-0298. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-19-0298. [Epub ahead of print]

Nam AS, Kim KT, Chaligne R, Izzo F, Ang C, Taylor J, Myers RM, Abu-Zeinah G, Brand R, Omans ND, Alonso A, Sheridan C, Mariani M, Dai X, Harrington E, Pastore A, Cubillos-Ruiz JR, Tam W, Hoffman R, Rabadan R, Scandura JM, Abdel-Wahab O, Smibert P, Landau DA. Somatic mutations and cell identity linked by Genotyping of Transcriptomes. Nature. 2019 Jul;571(7765):355-360. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1367-0. Epub 2019 Jul 3.

Pastore A, Gaiti F, Lu SX, Brand RM, Kulm S, Chaligne R, Gu H, Huang KY, Stamenova EK, Béguelin W, Jiang Y, Schulman RC, Kim KT, Alonso A, Allan JN, Furman RR, Gnirke A, Wu CJ, Melnick AM, Meissner A, Bernstein BE, Abdel-Wahab O (co-corresponding), Landau DA (co-corresponding). Corrupted coordination of epigenetic modifications leads to diverging chromatin states and transcriptional heterogeneity in CLL. Nat Commun. 2019 Apr 23;10(1):1874. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09645-5. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6478836.

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Taylor J, Pavlick D, Yoshimi A, Marcelus C, Chung SS, Hechtman JF, Benayed R, Cocco E, Durham BH, Bitner L, Inoue D, Chung YR, Mullaney K, Watts JM, Diamond EL, Albacker LA, Mughal TI, Ebata K, Tuch BB, Ku N, Scaltriti M, Roshal M, Arcila M, Ali S, Hyman DM, Park JH, Abdel-Wahab O. Oncogenic TRK fusions are amenable to inhibition in hematologic malignancies. J Clin Invest. 2018 Aug 31;128(9):3819-3825. doi: 10.1172/JCI120787. Epub 2018 Aug 6. PubMed

Lee SC, North K, Kim E, Jang E, Obeng E, Lu SX, Liu B, Inoue D, Yoshimi A, Ki M, Yeo M, Zhang XJ,Kim MK, Cho H, Chung YR, Taylor J, Durham BH, Kim YJ, Pastore A, Monette S, Palacino J, Seiler M, Buonamici S, Smith PG, Ebert BL, Bradley RK, Abdel-Wahab O. Synthetic Lethal and Convergent Biological Effects of Cancer-Associated Spliceosomal Gene Mutations. Cancer Cell. 2018 Aug 13;34(2):225-241.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.07.003. PubMed

Hoyos LE, Abdel-Wahab O. Cancer-Specific Splicing Changes and the Potential for Splicing-Derived Neoantigens. Cancer Cell. 2018 Aug 13;34(2):181-183. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.07.008. PubMed

Gala K, Li Q, Sinha A, Razavi P, Dorso M, Sanchez-Vega F, Chung YR, Hendrickson R, Hsieh JJ, Berger M, Schultz N, Pastore A, Abdel-Wahab O, Chandarlapaty S. KMT2C mediates the estrogen dependence of breast cancer through regulation of ERα enhancer function. Oncogene. 2018 Aug;37(34):4692-4710. doi: 10.1038/s41388-018-0273-5. Epub 2018 May 14. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6107480. PubMed

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Nagase R, Inoue D, Pastore A, Fujino T, Hou HA, Yamasaki N, Goyama S, Saika M, Kanai A, Sera Y, Horikawa S, Ota Y, Asada S, Hayashi Y, Kawabata KC, Takeda R, Tien HF, Honda H, Abdel-Wahab O (Equal contributor), Kitamura T (Equal contributor). Expression of mutant Asxl1 perturbs hematopoiesis and promotes susceptibility to leukemic transformation. J Exp Med. 2018 Jun 4;215(6):1729-1747. doi: 10.1084/jem.20171151. Epub 2018 Apr 11. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5987913. PubMed

Yoshimi A, Abdel-Wahab O. Targeting mRNA Decapping in AML. Cancer Cell. 2018 Mar 12;33(3):339-341. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.02.015. PubMed

Chen L, Chen JY, Huang YJ, Gu Y, Qiu J, Qian H, Shao C, Zhang X, Hu J, Li H, He S, Zhou Y, Abdel-Wahab O, Zhang DE, Fu XD. The Augmented R-Loop Is a Unifying Mechanism for Myelodysplastic Syndromes Induced by High-Risk Splicing Factor Mutations. Mol Cell. 2018 Feb 1;69(3):412-425.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.12.029. Epub 2018 Jan 27. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5957072. PubMed

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Rampal R, Ahn J, Abdel-Wahab O, Nahas M, Wang K, Lipson D, Otto GA, Yelensky R, Hricik T, McKenney AS, Chiosis G, Chung YR, Pandey S, van den Brink MR, Armstrong SA, Dogan A, Intlekofer A, Manshouri T, Park CY, Verstovsek S, Rapaport F, Stephens PJ, Miller VA, Levine RL. Genomic and functional analysis of leukemic transformation of myeloproliferative neoplasms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Dec 16;111(50):E5401-10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1407792111. Epub 2014 Dec 2.

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Lee SC, Abdel-Wahab O. The mutational landscape of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria revealed: new insights into clonal dominance. J Clin Invest. 2014 Oct;124(10):4227-30. doi: 10.1172/JCI77984. Epub 2014 Sep 17.

Emile JF, Diamond EL, Hélias-Rodzewicz Z, Cohen-Aubart F, Charlotte F, Hyman DM, Kim E, Rampal R, Patel M, Ganzel C, Aumann S, Faucher G, Le Gall C, Leroy K, Colombat M, Kahn JE, Trad S, Nizard P, Donadieu J, Taly V, Amoura Z, Abdel-Wahab O, Haroche J. Recurrent RAS and PIK3CA mutations in Erdheim-Chester disease. Blood. 2014 Nov 6;124(19):3016-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-04-570937. Epub 2014 Aug 22.

Micol JB, Duployez N, Boissel N, Petit A, Geffroy S, Nibourel O, Lacombe C, Lapillonne H, Etancelin P, Figeac M, Renneville A, Castaigne S, Leverger G, Ifrah N, Dombret H, Preudhomme C, Abdel-Wahab O, Jourdan E. Frequent ASXL2 mutations in acute myeloid leukemia patients with t(8;21)/RUNX1-RUNX1T1 chromosomal translocations. Blood. 2014 Aug 28;124(9):1445-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-04-571018. Epub 2014 Jun 27.

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Diamond EL, Dagna L, Hyman DM, Cavalli G, Janku F, Estrada-Veras J, Ferrarini M, Abdel-Wahab O, Heaney ML, Scheel PJ, Feeley NK, Ferrero E, McClain KL, Vaglio A, Colby T, Arnaud L, Haroche J. Consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and clinical management of Erdheim-Chester disease. Blood. 2014 Jul 24;124(4):483-92. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-03-561381. Epub 2014 May 21.

Rampal R, Al-Shahrour F, Abdel-Wahab O, Patel JP, Brunel JP, Mermel CH, Bass AJ, Pretz J, Ahn J, Hricik T, Kilpivaara O, Wadleigh M, Busque L, Gilliland DG, Golub TR, Ebert BL, Levine RL. Integrated genomic analysis illustrates the central role of JAK-STAT pathway activation in myeloproliferative neoplasm pathogenesis. Blood. 2014 May 29;123(22):e123-33. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-02-554634. Epub 2014 Apr 16.

Abdel-Wahab O, Klimek VM, Gaskell AA, Viale A, Cheng D, Kim E, Rampal R, Bluth M, Harding JJ, Callahan MK, Merghoub T, Berger MF, Solit DB, Rosen N, Levine RL, Chapman PB. Efficacy of intermittent combined RAF and MEK inhibition in a patient with concurrent BRAF- and NRAS-mutant malignancies. Cancer Discov. 2014 May;4(5):538-45. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-13-1038. Epub 2014 Mar 3.

Bejar R, Abdel-Wahab O. The importance of subclonal genetic events in MDS. Blood. 2013 Nov 21;122(22):3550-1. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-09-527655.

Abdel-Wahab O, Gao J, Adli M, Dey A, Trimarchi T, Chung YR, Kuscu C, Hricik T, Ndiaye-Lobry D, Lafave LM, Koche R, Shih AH, Guryanova OA, Kim E, Li S, Pandey S, Shin JY, Telis L, Liu J, Bhatt PK, Monette S, Zhao X, Mason CE, Park CY, Bernstein BE, Aifantis I, Levine RL. Deletion of Asxl1 results in myelodysplasia and severe developmental defects in vivo. J Exp Med. 2013 Nov 18;210(12):2641-59. doi: 10.1084/jem.20131141. Epub 2013 Nov 11.

Inoue D, Kitaura J, Togami K, Nishimura K, Enomoto Y, Uchida T, Kagiyama Y, Kawabata KC, Nakahara F, Izawa K, Oki T, Maehara A, Isobe M, Tsuchiya A, Harada Y, Harada H, Ochiya T, Aburatani H, Kimura H, Thol F, Heuser M, Levine RL, Abdel-Wahab O, Kitamura T. Myelodysplastic syndromes are induced by histone methylation–altering ASXL1 mutations. J Clin Invest. 2013 Nov;123(11):4627-40.

Quintás-Cardama A, Abdel-Wahab O, Manshouri T, Kilpivaara O, Cortes J, Roupie AL, Zhang SJ, Harris D, Estrov Z, Kantarjian H, Levine RL, Verstovsek S. Molecular analysis of patients with polycythemia vera or essential thrombocythemia receiving pegylated interferon α-2a. Blood. 2013 Aug 8;122(6):893-901. doi: 10.1182/blood-2012-07-442012. Epub 2013 Jun 19.

Padron E, Abdel-Wahab O. Importance of genetics in the clinical management of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Jul 1;31(19):2374-6. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2013.48.9120. Epub 2013 May 20.

Béguelin W, Popovic R, Teater M, Jiang Y, Bunting KL, Rosen M, Shen H, Yang SN, Wang L, Ezponda T, Martinez-Garcia E, Zhang H, Zheng Y, Verma SK, McCabe MT, Ott HM, Van Aller GS, Kruger RG, Liu Y, McHugh CF, Scott DW, Chung YR, Kelleher N, Shaknovich R, Creasy CL, Gascoyne RD, Wong KK, Cerchietti L, Levine RL, Abdel-Wahab O, Licht JD, Elemento O, Melnick AM. EZH2 is required for germinal center formation and somatic EZH2 mutations promote lymphoid transformation. Cancer Cell. 2013 May 13;23(5):677-92. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2013.04.011.

Abdel-Wahab O, Levine RL. Mutations in epigenetic modifiers in the pathogenesis and therapy of acute myeloid leukemia. Blood. 2013 May 2;121(18):3563-72. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-01-451781. Review.

Ward PS, Lu C, Cross JR, Abdel-Wahab O, Levine RL, Schwartz GK, Thompson CB. The potential for isocitrate dehydrogenase mutations to produce 2-hydroxyglutarate depends on allele specificity and subcellular compartmentalization. J Biol Chem. 2013 Feb 8;288(6):3804-15. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.435495. Epub 2012 Dec 21.

Abdel-Wahab O, Figueroa ME. Interpreting new molecular genetics in myelodysplastic syndromes. Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program. 2012;2012:56-64. doi: 10.1182/asheducation-2012.1.56. Review.

Callahan MK, Rampal R, Harding JJ, Klimek VM, Chung YR, Merghoub T, Wolchok JD, Solit DB, Rosen N, Abdel-Wahab O, Levine RL, Chapman PB. Progression of RAS-mutant leukemia during RAF inhibitor treatment. N Engl J Med. 2012 Dec 13;367(24):2316-21. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1208958. Epub 2012 Nov 7.

Busque L, Patel JP, Figueroa ME, Vasanthakumar A, Provost S, Hamilou Z, Mollica L, Li J, Viale A, Heguy A, Hassimi M, Socci N, Bhatt PK, Gonen M, Mason CE, Melnick A, Godley LA, Brennan CW, Abdel-Wahab O, Levine RL. Recurrent somatic TET2 mutations in normal elderly individuals with clonal hematopoiesis. Nat Genet. 2012 Nov;44(11):1179-81. doi: 10.1038/ng.2413. Epub 2012 Sep 23.

Shih AH, Abdel-Wahab O, Patel JP, Levine RL. The role of mutations in epigenetic regulators in myeloid malignancies. Nat Rev Cancer. 2012 Sep;12(9):599-612. doi: 10.1038/nrc3343. Epub 2012 Aug 17. Review.

Abdel-Wahab O, Adli M, LaFave LM, Gao J, Hricik T, Shih AH, Pandey S, Patel JP, Chung YR, Koche R, Perna F, Zhao X, Taylor JE, Park CY, Carroll M, Melnick A, Nimer SD, Jaffe JD, Aifantis I, Bernstein BE, Levine RL. ASXL1 mutations promote myeloid transformation through loss of PRC2-mediated gene repression. Cancer Cell. 2012 Aug 14;22(2):180-93. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.06.032.

Dey A, Seshasayee D, Noubade R, French DM, Liu J, Chaurushiya MS, Kirkpatrick DS, Pham VC, Lill JR, Bakalarski CE, Wu J, Phu L, Katavolos P, LaFave LM, Abdel-Wahab O, Modrusan Z, Seshagiri S, Dong K, Lin Z, Balazs M, Suriben R, Newton K, Hymowitz S, Garcia-Manero G, Martin F, Levine RL, Dixit VM. Loss of the tumor suppressor BAP1 causes myeloid transformation. Science. 2012 Sep 21;337(6101):1541-6. Epub 2012 Aug 9.

Zhang SJ, Rampal R, Manshouri T, Patel J, Mensah N, Kayserian A, Hricik T, Heguy A, Hedvat C, Gönen M, Kantarjian H, Levine RL, Abdel-Wahab O, Verstovsek S. Genetic analysis of patients with leukemic transformation of myeloproliferative neoplasms shows recurrent SRSF2 mutations that are associated with adverse outcome. Blood. 2012 May 10;119(19):4480-5. doi: 10.1182/blood-2011-11-390252. Epub 2012 Mar 19.

Patel JP, Gönen M, Figueroa ME, Fernandez H, Sun Z, Racevskis J, Van Vlierberghe P, Dolgalev I, Thomas S, Aminova O, Huberman K, Cheng J, Viale A, Socci ND, Heguy A, Cherry A, Vance G, Higgins RR, Ketterling RP, Gallagher RE, Litzow M, van den Brink MR, Lazarus HM, Rowe JM, Luger S, Ferrando A, Paietta E, Tallman MS, Melnick A, Abdel-Wahab O, Levine RL. Prognostic relevance of integrated genetic profiling in acute myeloid leukemia. N Engl J Med. 2012 Mar 22;366(12):1079-89. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1112304. Epub 2012 Mar 14.

Lu C, Ward PS, Kapoor GS, Rohle D, Turcan S, Abdel-Wahab O, Edwards CR, Khanin R, Figueroa ME, Melnick A, Wellen KE, O’Rourke DM, Berger SL, Chan TA, Levine RL, Mellinghoff IK, Thompson CB. IDH mutation impairs histone demethylation and results in a block to cell differentiation. Nature. 2012 Feb 15;483(7390):474-8. doi: 10.1038/nature10860.

Abdel-Wahab O, Levine R. The spliceosome as an indicted conspirator in myeloid malignancies. Cancer Cell. 2011 Oct 18;20(4):420-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2011.10.004.

Betts BC, Abdel-Wahab O, Curran SA, St Angelo ET, Koppikar P, Heller G, Levine RL, Young JW. Janus kinase-2 inhibition induces durable tolerance to alloantigen by human dendritic cell-stimulated T cells yet preserves immunity to recall antigen. Blood. 2011 Nov 10;118(19):5330-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2011-06-363408. Epub 2011 Sep 13.

Cimmino L, Abdel-Wahab O, Levine RL, Aifantis I. TET family proteins and their role in stem cell differentiation and transformation. Cell Stem Cell. 2011 Sep 2;9(3):193-204. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2011.08.007. Review.

Moran-Crusio K, Reavie L, Shih A, Abdel-Wahab O, Ndiaye-Lobry D, Lobry C, Figueroa ME, Vasanthakumar A, Patel J, Zhao X, Perna F, Pandey S, Madzo J, Song C, Dai Q, He C, Ibrahim S, Beran M, Zavadil J, Nimer SD, Melnick A, Godley LA, Aifantis I, Levine RL. Tet2 loss leads to increased hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and myeloid transformation. Cancer Cell. 2011 Jul 12;20(1):11-24. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2011.06.001. Epub 2011 Jun 30.

Bejar R, Stevenson K, Abdel-Wahab O, Galili N, Nilsson B, Garcia-Manero G, Kantarjian H, Raza A, Levine RL, Neuberg D, Ebert BL. Clinical effect of point mutations in myelodysplastic syndromes. N Engl J Med. 2011 Jun 30;364(26):2496-506. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1013343.

Klinakis A, Lobry C, Abdel-Wahab O, Oh P, Haeno H, Buonamici S, van De Walle I, Cathelin S, Trimarchi T, Araldi E, Liu C, Ibrahim S, Beran M, Zavadil J, Efstratiadis A, Taghon T, Michor F, Levine RL, Aifantis I. A novel tumour-suppressor function for the Notch pathway in myeloid leukaemia. Nature. 2011 May 12;473(7346):230-3. doi: 10.1038/nature09999.

Figueroa ME, Abdel-Wahab O, Lu C, Ward PS, Patel J, Shih A, Li Y, Bhagwat N, Vasanthakumar A, Fernandez HF, Tallman MS, Sun Z, Wolniak K, Peeters JK, Liu W, Choe SE, Fantin VR, Paietta E, Löwenberg B, Licht JD, Godley LA, Delwel R, Valk PJ, Thompson CB, Levine RL, Melnick A. Leukemic IDH1 and IDH2 mutations result in a hypermethylation phenotype, disrupt TET2 function, and impair hematopoietic differentiation. Cancer Cell. 2010 Dec 14;18(6):553-67. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.11.015. Epub 2010 Dec 9.

Ward PS, Patel J, Wise DR, Abdel-Wahab O, Bennett BD, Coller HA, Cross JR, Fantin VR, Hedvat CV, Perl AE, Rabinowitz JD, Carroll M, Su SM, Sharp KA, Levine RL, Thompson CB. The common feature of leukemia-associated IDH1 and IDH2 mutations is a neomorphic enzyme activity converting alpha-ketoglutarate to 2-hydroxyglutarate. Cancer Cell. 2010 Mar 16;17(3):225-34. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.01.020. Epub 2010 Feb 18.

Koppikar P, Abdel-Wahab O, Hedvat C, Marubayashi S, Patel J, Goel A, Kucine N, Gardner JR, Combs AP, Vaddi K, Haley PJ, Burn TC, Rupar M, Bromberg JF, Heaney ML, de Stanchina E, Fridman JS, Levine RL. Efficacy of the JAK2 inhibitor INCB16562 in a murine model of MPLW515L-induced thrombocytosis and myelofibrosis. Blood. 2010 Apr 8;115(14):2919-27. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-04-218842. Epub 2010 Feb 12.

Abdel-Wahab O, Manshouri T, Patel J, Harris K, Yao J, Hedvat C, Heguy A, Bueso-Ramos C, Kantarjian H, Levine RL, Verstovsek S. Genetic analysis of transforming events that convert chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms to leukemias. Cancer Res. 2010 Jan 15;70(2):447-52. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-3783. Epub 2010 Jan 12.

Abdel-Wahab O, Mullally A, Hedvat C, Garcia-Manero G, Patel J, Wadleigh M, Malinge S, Yao J, Kilpivaara O, Bhat R, Huberman K, Thomas S, Dolgalev I, Heguy A, Paietta E, Le Beau MM, Beran M, Tallman MS, Ebert BL, Kantarjian HM, Stone RM, Gilliland DG, Crispino JD, Levine RL. Genetic characterization of TET1, TET2, and TET3 alterations in myeloid malignancies. Blood. 2009 Jul 2;114(1):144-7. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-03-210039. Epub 2009 May 6.

Books, Book Chapters, and Reviews

Abdel-Wahab O, Figueroa ME. Interpreting new molecular genetics in myelodysplastic syndromes. Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program. 2012;2012:56-64. doi: 10.1182/asheducation-2012.1.56.

Chung YR, Schatoff E, Abdel-Wahab O. Epigenetic alterations in hematopoietic malignancies. Int J Hematol. 2012 Oct;96(4):413-27.

Shih AH, Abdel-Wahab O, Patel JP, Levine R.L. The role of mutations in epigenetic regulators in myeloid malignancies. Nat Rev Cancer. 2012 Aug 14;22(2):180-93.

Abdel-Wahab O, Patel J, Levine RL. Clinical implications of novel mutations in epigenetic modifiers in AML. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2011 Dec;25(6):1119-33.

Fathi A, Abdel-Wahab O. Mutations in epigenetic modifiers in myeloid malignancies and the prospect of novel epigenetic-targeted therapy. Adv Hematol. 2012;2012:469592.

Abdel-Wahab O, Levine RL. EZH2 mutations: mutating the epigenetic machinery in myeloid malignancies. Cancer Cell. 2010 Aug 9;18(2):105-107.