(en) Although the concept of somatic driver mutations in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) represented by polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and primary myelofibrosis is well established,1-3 the contribution of germline or co-occurring JAK2 variants to a particular MPN phenotype is less well understood.4,5 Recently, 2 germline JAK2 mutations, E846D and R1063H, were described in a case of hereditary erythrocytosis6 ; the same JAK2 R1063H variant was initially reported in 3 of 93 PV patients who were JAK2 V617F+. [...]