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Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease
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Cryptic signs of aging in our blood: Time is not a friend to our DNA. Aging is associated with an accumulation of somatic mutations in normal dividing cells, including the hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that give rise to all blood cells. Certain mutations in HSCs confer a fitness advantage that results in clonal expansions of mutant blood cells that sometimes—but not always—forecast the development of cancer and other age-related diseases. Jaiswal and Ebert review this process of “clonal hematopoiesis,” including the mechanisms by which it arises and the current state of knowledge regarding its effects on human health. Science , this issue p. eaan4673
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Clonal hematopoiesis, especially CHIP, is common with aging and driven largely by DNMT3A/TET2 mutations; it raises risk of blood cancers, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. Mouse and human data support causal roles in atherosclerosis and inflammation, though mechanisms and broader disease links remain uncertain.
Key findings
- Clonal hematopoiesis is age-related: detectable in <1% of healthy individuals under age 40 but 10–20% of those age 70 or older; in one study, a median of ~18% of blood cells carried the mutations. Nearly two-thirds of clonal hematopoiesis was accounted for by loss-of-function mutations in DNMT3A and TET2, with ASXL1 third most common.
- CHIP was associated with ~10-fold increased relative risk of hematological malignancies; 4% of CHIP carriers developed a blood cancer over 8 years, corresponding to ~0.5% conversion per year. Nested case-control studies found ~3- to 5-fold increased AML risk.
- CHIP was associated with a 30–40% increased mortality risk and increased cardiovascular risk: coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke risk more than doubled, early-onset MI risk was four times higher, and JAK2 mutations conferred ~12-fold higher coronary heart disease risk and ~12-fold venous thrombosis risk.
- Mouse models showed that Tet2 or Dnmt3a loss accelerates atherosclerosis and heart failure, with IL-1B blockade reversing accelerated atherosclerosis; CHIP genes also affect inflammatory pathways including IL6 and IL8.
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- Narrative review; no primary data collection or formal meta-analysis.
- Synthesizes human population and exome sequencing studies, including cohorts of greater than 30,000 persons, nested case-control studies, and mouse models.
- Main analysis is qualitative synthesis of genetic associations, clinical outcomes, and mechanistic experiments.
Limitations
- Stated: mechanisms by which DNMT3A/TET2 and splicing factor mutations drive clonal expansion remain unclear; causality for non-malignant diseases beyond cardiovascular disease is not established, with type 2 diabetes possibly reflecting reverse causation and COPD potentially confounded by smoking.
- Stated: prevalence estimates depend heavily on detection sensitivity, and the biological significance of smaller clones is unknown; clone trajectories vary between people and risk stratification remains incomplete.
- Evident: as a narrative review, it lacks systematic search or quality assessment and provides no new primary data; risk estimates are drawn from heterogeneous studies.
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“As each HSC acquires ~1 exonic mutation per decade of life 3,”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Introduction
What the sources say
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“But in the 1990s, studies of non-random X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) in women led to the discovery that clonal hematopoiesis also occurs in individuals without cancer 18.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > A brief history of clonal hematopoiesis
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“The surprising result of this experiment of nature was that clonal hematopoiesis largely results from mutations in a very restricted set of genes.”
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“This outgrowth, called “clonal hematopoiesis,” is highly prevalent in the elderly population.”
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“Indeed, numerous studies have now shown that such outgrowths of mutated blood cells, termed “clonal hematopoiesis,” are highly prevalent in the elderly.”
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“Importantly, non-random XCI in blood cells was observed to increase in frequency with age, although the underlying mechanism was unclear 19.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > A brief history of clonal hematopoiesis
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“The third most commonly mutated gene was ASXL1, a chromatin regulator, while mutations in splicing factors (SF3B1, SRSF2, PRPF8, U2AF1) were also frequent.”
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“This was the first demonstration that mutation-driven clonal hematopoiesis occurs in healthy persons 20.”
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“Like most cancers, AML generally results from several driver mutations that occur sequentially in the same clone over time 3.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > A brief history of clonal hematopoiesis
What the sources say
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“Mutations in classical oncogenes and tumor suppressors, such as those involved in cellular growth signaling (JAK2, GNAS, GNB1, CBL) and the DNA damage response (TP53, PPM1D), were seen but were not the most common.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Clonal hematopoiesis in the genome sequencing era
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“The size of these mutant clones was massive; in one study, a median of ~18% of blood cells carried the mutations 28.”
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“An equivalent state is also pervasive in the epithelium of skin 14 and esophagus 15,16, suggesting that somatic mutation-driven clonal expansions may be a characteristic of aging in several tissues.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Introduction
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“by the age of 70 an average person would be expected to harbor up to 1.4 million protein-coding variants, corresponding to an average of 70 mutations per gene, in at least one HSC (Fig. 1).”
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“In later studies, DNA sequencing of HSCs from AML patients in remission revealed that stem cells with only a single driver mutation were often present, suggesting that pre-malignant clonal hematopoiesis was a generalizable finding in AML 23–25.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > A brief history of clonal hematopoiesis
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“Aging is associated with a steady increase in the number of somatic mutations in virtually all tissues 1–5.”
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“Blood cancers such as chronic myeloid leukemia were first demonstrated to be clonal from karyotypic analysis and are the prototypical example of clonal hematopoiesis 17.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > A brief history of clonal hematopoiesis
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“Somatic clones were detectable in less than 1% of healthy individuals under age 40, but they increased in frequency with each decade of life.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Clonal hematopoiesis in the genome sequencing era
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“Clonal hematopoiesis provides a glimpse into the process of mutation and selection that likely occurs in all somatic tissues.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Abstract
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“Mouse models carrying loss-of-function mutations in either of these genes clearly show an HSC competitive advantage in vivo as well as a propensity for leukemia when cooperating mutations are present 50–53.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Mechanisms of clonal expansion
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“While the accumulation of both small and large somatic variants are linked to aging, the underlying biology of the two is generally non-overlapping.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Clonal hematopoiesis in the genome sequencing era
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“But large structural variation, such as gains or losses of large segments of chromosomes, also increases with age and has clinically meaningful associations 34–36.”
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“Stem cells from these mice are able to serially replate in colony forming assays over many generations, whereas wild-type stem cells quickly lose this capacity, suggestive of enhanced self-renewal capacity in the mutant stem cells 54,55.”
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“In one study, 4% of CHIP carriers developed a blood cancer over the subsequent 8 years, corresponding to ~0.5% of CHIP cases converting to malignancy per year 28.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and hematological malignancy
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“For comparison, previously described mutations in the blood of healthy persons such as BCR-ABL or BCL2 translocations were usually present in less than 0.01% of cells and were often transient 29,30.”
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“The PIGA gene is required for the synthesis of glycophosphotidylinositol (GPI) and its loss results in down-regulation of several cell surface proteins that are GPI anchored 60.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Mechanisms of clonal expansion
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“Stochastic processes such as constriction of the stem cell pool with aging may also lead to clonal hematopoiesis in the absence of a known driver mutation.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP)
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“CHIP itself does not denote a malignancy, nor is it associated with clinically significant alterations in blood counts 28,63.”
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“Loss of some of these proteins may allow for immune escape, thus explaining selection for PIGA-mutated clones.”
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“For example, CHIP has been reported to be more common in older men 28 and smokers 27 and less common in Hispanics 28, although these associations are all relatively modest.”
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“Subsequent studies showed that loss of Tet2 or Dnmt3a led to worsening heart function in a mouse model of congestive heart failure, corroborating the human genetic association 87,88.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and non-malignant disease
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“These studies indicate that CHIP in the setting of other cancers is likely to be especially pervasive and portends a poor prognosis.”
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“Furthermore, JAK2 mutations prime neutrophils to form neutrophil extracellular traps, leading to thrombosis, which may also contribute to poor cardiovascular outcomes 82.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and non-malignant disease
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“Patients with CHIP also had increased mortality, most often due to progression of their primary malignancy.”
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“First, tissue architecture constrains the extent of clonal expansion within tissues such as gut or skin epithelium to patches that are rarely larger than a few square millimeters 15, but there is no such spatial restriction on HSCs, which freely admix throughout the bone marrow and body 78.”
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“Heart function in these studies was also improved with blockade of IL-1B, suggesting that this may be a common pathway for reversing the effects of CHIP in the heart.”
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“this could represent a case of reverse causation, as hyperglycemia might influence the development or expansion of clones by interfering with TET2 function 90”
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“In addition, individuals with larger mutant clones had the greatest risk of cardiovascular disease, mirroring the situation for malignancy risk 79.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and non-malignant disease
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- Not checked yetcites [79] Jaiswal S Clonal Hematopoiesis and Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease. N Engl J Med 377, 111– 121, doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1701719 (2017). 28636844 PMC6717509 source
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“In contrast to tissue-specific cells or epithelia, immune cells such as lymphocytes, granulocytes, and monocytes can migrate to and influence nearly every organ.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and non-malignant disease
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“Myeloid malignancies were most common, although some people with CHIP did develop lymphoid cancers 27,28.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and hematological malignancy
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [27] Genovese G Clonal hematopoiesis and blood-cancer risk inferred from blood DNA sequence. N Engl J Med 371, 2477– 2487, doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1409405 (2014). 25426838 PMC4290021 source
- Not checked yetcites [28] Jaiswal S Age-related clonal hematopoiesis associated with adverse outcomes. N Engl J Med 371, 2488– 2498, doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1408617 (2014). 25426837 PMC4306669 source
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“Mutations in JAK2 have a well-described role in activating STAT transcription factors, which are central to immune response in several cell types involved in atherosclerosis.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and non-malignant disease
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“In a separate study (83), individuals with CHIP-associated JAK2 mutations were reported to have a ~12 times greater risk of developing venous thrombosis than those without CHIP, whereas individuals with mutations in other CHIP-associated genes had a doubling of the risk 82.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and non-malignant disease
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [82] Wolach O Increased neutrophil extracellular trap formation promotes thrombosis in myeloproliferative neoplasms. Science translational medicine 10, doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aan8292 (2018). PMC6442466 29643232 source
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“Both groups found that loss of Tet2 in bone marrow cells led to an increase in the size of atherosclerotic lesions in hyperlipidemic mice, an effect that could not be explained by quantitative changes in blood cell parameters of the mutant mice 79,86.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and non-malignant disease
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [79] Jaiswal S Clonal Hematopoiesis and Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease. N Engl J Med 377, 111– 121, doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1701719 (2017). 28636844 PMC6717509 source
- Not checked yetcites [86] Fuster JJ Clonal hematopoiesis associated with Tet2 deficiency accelerates atherosclerosis development in mice. Science, doi: 10.1126/science.aag1381 (2017). PMC5542057 28104796 source
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“However, CHIP was also strongly linked to smoking in these studies, so the result could be confounded by this association.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > CHIP and non-malignant disease
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [37] Zink F Clonal hematopoiesis, with and without candidate driver mutations, is common in the elderly. Blood 130, 742– 752, doi: 10.1182/blood-2017-02-769869 (2017). 28483762 PMC5553576 source
- Not checked yetcites [63] Buscarlet M DNMT3A and TET2 dominate clonal hematopoiesis and demonstrate benign phenotypes and different genetic predispositions. Blood 130, 753– 762, doi: 10.1182/blood-2017-04-777029 (2017). 28655780 source
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“Mechanistically, very little is known about why these specific gene expression changes are seen with loss of Dnmt3a.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Immune function and CHIP
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“Some people have clones that remain stagnant in size for many years, whereas other people have clones that show steady growth 28,33.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Future outlook
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [28] Jaiswal S Age-related clonal hematopoiesis associated with adverse outcomes. N Engl J Med 371, 2488– 2498, doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1408617 (2014). 25426837 PMC4306669 source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Young AL, Challen GA, Birmann BM & Druley TE Clonal haematopoiesis harbouring AML-associated mutations is ubiquitous in healthy adults. Nat Commun 7, 12484, doi: 10.1038/ncomms12484 (2016). 27546487 PMC4996934 source
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“Understanding the causes and consequences of clonal hematopoiesis may provide a framework to understand this process, and aging, more broadly.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Future outlook
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“It is also uncertain why some people have apparent clonal hematopoiesis in the absence of a known driver mutation.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Future outlook
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“It is associated with blood cancers, cardiovascular disease, and overall mortality.”
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“It is striking that the two most commonly mutated genes in CHIP, DNMT3A and TET2, are opposing enzymes in DNA methylation, yet both lead to convergent phenotypes in stem cell biology and immunity.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Future outlook
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“The mechanisms by which the CHIP-associated mutations cause clonal expansion and enhanced inflammation is also a central unanswered question.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Future outlook
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“Bone marrow transplant recipients with hematological malignancies who received donor marrow from carriers of CHIP had higher rates of graft-versus-host disease and reduced relapse rates 95.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Immune function and CHIP
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [95] Frick M Role of Donor Clonal Hematopoiesis in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation. J Clin Oncol, JCO2018792184, doi: 10.1200/JCO.2018.79.2184 (2018). 30403573 source
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“The process of mutation and clonal selection is likely to be universal across all organs and tissues.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Future outlook
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“The changes in expression are relatively modest for each gene (~2 to 3-fold increase) but appear to be biologically significant given the number of genes that are dysregulated and the breadth of phenotypes seen in Tet2 knockout mice.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Immune function and CHIP
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“One possible explanation for this finding is that the donor cells harboring the mutations were capable of mounting stronger immune responses against both normal host tissues and the tumor.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Immune function and CHIP
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [95] Frick M Role of Donor Clonal Hematopoiesis in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation. J Clin Oncol, JCO2018792184, doi: 10.1200/JCO.2018.79.2184 (2018). 30403573 source
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“Furthermore, the interaction of CHIP with other risk factors, such as having type 2 diabetes or elevated serum levels of C-reactive protein, may be synergistic for adverse outcomes.”
§ Clonal hematopoiesis in human aging and disease > Future outlook
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“It is likely that cell extrinsic factors, like the microenvironment, the microbiome, or diet, will play a role.”
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Given a sufficiently large population, every possible mutation that can occur will occur in some HSCs.
“These studies can be thought of as a natural experiment of saturation mutagenesis in humans, and can be summarized in a simple postulate—given a sufficiently large population, every possible mutation that can occur will occur in some HSCs.”
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“as CHIP mutations are known to increase the fitness of HSCs and myeloid progenitors5”
From Clonal hematopoiesis is associated with protection from Alzheimer’s disease (2023) · cites this paper as [5]
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“Most large-population-based studies define CHIP using a VAF threshold of ≥2%, reflecting the lower limit of reliable detection in standard whole-exome sequencing pipelines [2,32].”
From Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential as an Emerging Interdisciplinary Risk Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease: Current Evidence and Future Directions (2026) · cites this paper as [32]
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“The prevalence of CHIP increases sharply with age, creating a significant biological intersection between individuals at risk for CHIP and late-onset AD [9,32].”
From Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential as an Emerging Interdisciplinary Risk Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease: Current Evidence and Future Directions (2026) · cites this paper as [32]
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“Examples include the possible links between clonal haematopoiesis and cardiovascular disease54; between mutations in liver disease and insulin resistance55; and between driver mutations in cavernomas and brain haemorrhages49,53,56.”
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“In humans, this manifests itself as ‘clonal haematopoiesis’, where one or a few HSC clones disproportionately contribute to blood production over time48,49.”
From Ageing and rejuvenation of tissue stem cells and their niches (2023) · cites this paper as [49]
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“In a separate study (83), individuals with CHIP-associated JAK2 mutations were reported to have a ~12 times greater risk of developing venous thrombosis than those without CHIP”
“83. Patel KV, Ferrucci L, Ershler WB, Longo DL & Guralnik JM Red blood cell distribution width and the risk of death in middle-aged and older adults.”
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“If the first mutation to be acquired leads to clonal expansion without malignant transformation, it should be possible to identify a premalignant stage in which only the initiating lesion is present (22).”
Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer
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“M. A. Sanders et al., MBD4 guards against methylation damage and germ line deficiency predisposes to clonal hematopoiesis and early-onset AML.”
BackgroundInfluentialAge-related clonal hematopoiesis associated with adverse outcomes
Jaiswal, S., Fontanillas, P., Flannick, J., Manning, A., Grauman, P. V., Mar, B. G., Lindsley, R. C., Mermel, C. H., Burtt, N., Chavez, A., et al. (2014) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejmoa1408617 · Cited by 4,841 · cited 9×
“Indeed, some individuals with clonal hematopoiesis have nearly all of their blood cells arising from a single mutated HSC (29).”
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“Blood cancers such as chronic myeloid leukemia were first demonstrated to be clonal from karyotypic analysis and are the prototypical example of clonal hematopoiesis (18).”
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“Growing evidence thus supports a role for the commonlymutatedCHIP genes in immune function, and CHIP may underlie some part of the phenomenon termed “inflammaging,” the age-associated increase in systemic inflammation (98).”
Clonal hematopoiesis and blood-cancer risk inferred from blood DNA sequence
Genovese, G., Kähler, A. K., Handsaker, R. E., Lindberg, J., Rose, S. A., Bakhoum, S. F., Chambert, K., Mick, E., Neale, B. M., Fromer, M., et al. (2014) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejmoa1409405 · Cited by 3,531
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“Activating mutations in JAK2 allow constitutive signaling though growth factor receptors, thus leading to clonal expansion by enhanced proliferation of cells that carry this mutation (46).”
BackgroundTet proteins can convert 5-methylcytosine to 5-formylcytosine and 5-carboxylcytosine
Ito, S., Shen, L., Dai, Q., Wu, S. C., Collins, L. B., Swenberg, J. A., He, C., & Zhang, Y. (2011) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1210597 · Cited by 3,451 · cited 1×
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DNA methylation-based biomarkers and the epigenetic clock theory of ageing
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“Like several other welldescribed markers in blood cells, such as red cell distributionwidth (84), DNAmethylation clocks (85), and loss of Y chromosome (86), CHIP is associated with multiple adverse outcomes in epidemiological studies.”
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The Role of the Inflammasome in Heart Failure
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MethodSelf-citationSomatic mutations provide important and unique insights into the biology of complex diseases
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“…large-scale genetic studies have revealed the prevalence of cancer-associated clonal SF mutations in blood of individuals without neoplasia, although at a lower frequency than mutations in epigenetic regulators TET2 and DNMT3A (Genovese et al., 2014; Jaiswal & Ebert, 2019; Xie et al., 2014).”
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BackgroundAccelerated Vascular Aging in Chronic Kidney Disease: The Potential for Novel Therapies
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“Additionally, HSP cells tend to accumulate somatic mutations, some of which confer a survival advantage, resulting in clonal outgrowth, a process referred to as clonal haematopoiesis 151,152 .”
Clonal Hematopoiesis Before, During, and After Human Spaceflight
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“These changes can then be examined relative to published CH guidelines (Bolton et al., 2019a; Jaiswal and Ebert, 2019), other CH data from emerging clinical and control cohorts (Busque et al.”
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Functional diversity of cardiac macrophages in health and disease
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“However, CHIP also increases the risk of CVD and cardiovascular-related mortality 94,95 .”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jaiswal, S., & Ebert, B. L.
- Affiliations
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Broad Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Jaiswal, Siddhartha
- Ebert, Benjamin L.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2019-11
- Volume
- 366
- Issue
- 6465
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC8050831
- OpenAlex
- W2982291252
- Semantic Scholar
- 6d1a7a80dacac969118008d44a082733bff68245
- Cited by
- 1,156
- References
- 98
- Citations by year
- 2026: 173 · 2025: 222 · 2024: 206 · 2023: 169 · 2022: 164 · 2021: 136 · 2020: 83 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 15.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- The Japanese Society of Hematology
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (P01CA066996, P50CA206963, R01HL082945)
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Edward P. Evans Foundation
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
- Fondation Leducq
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Keywords
- clonal hematopoiesis, somatic mutations, aging, hematopoietic stem cells, cancer risk, immune function
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aging, Animals, Cardiovascular Diseases, Clone Cells, Hematopoiesis, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Humans, Mutation, Precancerous Conditions, Hematologic Neoplasms, Clonal Evolution
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-10, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-10 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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