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Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Researchers from Athens University, Department of Chemistry discuss findings in analytical and bioanalytical chemistry

Published in Blood Weekly, July 15th, 2010

New research, 'Visual screening for JAK2V617F mutation by a disposable dipstick,' is the subject of a report. "During the last 5 years, it was discovered that the JAK2V617F somatic mutation is present in virtually all patients with polycythemia vera and a large proportion of patients with essential thrombocythemia, primary myelofibrosis, and refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts and thrombocytosis. As a result, JAK2V617F was incorporated as a new clonal marker in the 2008 revision of the WHO diagnostic criteria," scientists writing in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry report.

"Current methods for JAK2 genotyping include direct sequencing,...

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