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Aggressive systemic mastocytosis (ASM) and mast cell leukemia (MCL) are rare but devastating diseases, for which no effective specific therapy is currently available. Most patients harbor the D816V mutant of KIT (KIT D816V ), a constitutively active tyrosine kinase that is essential for pathogenesis, raising hopes that specific inhibition of KIT D816V may be therapeutically efficacious...