Telomere length in hematopoietic cell transplant

Abstract

In this issue of Blood, Myllymäki et al1 evaluated the role of pretransplant leukocyte telomere length (LTL) on survival outcomes in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). The authors found associations between recipient short LTL and poor overall survival and high risk of nonrelapse mortality (NRM) after unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT).