The authors explain in the article that NSD1 mutation has recently been linked in the scientific literature to the
blocking of cellular differentiation and the promotion of oncogenesis in this type of tumor.
The new paper is «by far the most complete
survey of a cellular differentiation event,» says Juha Kere, a molecular geneticist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who is not affiliated with the FANTOM group.
Research Focus & Career Goals: Recent work, to which I have also contributed, and from some other laboratories has established that global
regulation of cellular differentiation is the result of the coordinated interplay of dynamic changes in the organization of chromatin, epigenetic modifications, lncRNAs and transcription factors.
Unlike normal plasma cells, the malignant plasma cells look large and round with a high mitotic index (measure of the proliferation of a cell population) in early
stages of cellular differentiation.