“…Disease recurrence was confirmed to be the major cause of treatment failure also in our cohort of children with JMML given HSCT. So far, older age [13,15,18], female sex [13], abnormal karyotype or monosomy 7 [15,16,18], greater number of HLA disparities [14,15], AML-type gene expression signature [32], somatic mutation in PTPN11 [18], secondary mutation [33], and DNA hypermethylation [34] have been reported as risk factors for relapse or EFS after HSCT. Also in our study, older age, abnormal karyotype, or greater number of HLA disparities were correlated with worse outcome after HSCT, but female sex was not.…”