Internal tandem duplication (ITD) refers to a process in which a portion of the second exon of a gene is duplicated, internal to the exon. [1] Somatic ITD mutations are an important oncogenic driver in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), where an ITD within the juxta-membrane domain of FLT3 confers a poor prognosis [2]
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