“…This was associated with activation of RAS/MAP kinase pathways (both Erk and JNK), D-type cyclins and cdk2. In fact, previous studies had also identi®ed genes downstream of BCR ± ABL such as RAS (Cortez et al, 1995(Cortez et al, , 1996Tauchi and Broxmeyer, 1995;Elefanty et al, 1997), cyclin D1 (Afar et al, 1995) and c-MYC (Cleveland et al, 1989;Sawyers et al, 1992;Afar et al, 1994) which were very likely to play a role in proliferation. Recent evidence has linked RAS signalling to cyclin D1/cdk4 activation (Albanese et al, 1995;Aktas et al, 1997;Peeper et al, 1997) and it has been shown that induction of S phase in REF52 cells requires co-expression of both RAS and c-MYC (Leone et al, 1997).…”