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Hematopoietic stem cells

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are vulnerable to DNA damage and mutations that increase with age. This vulnerability may explain the increased risk of slow growing blood cancers (myeloid malignancies) in the elderly. Several factors appear to influence HSC aging including responses to the production of reactive oxygen species that may cause DNA damage and genetic mutations as well as altered epigenetic profiling.