| Cell-intrinsic mechanisms |
| Cell cycle regulators | pRb/p107/p130 | Mx1-Cre conditional deletion | Increased | Adult | Viatour et al., 2008 |
| | CyclinD1/D2/D3 | Triple knockout | Decreased | Fetal | Kozar et al., 2004 |
| | Cdk4/6 | Double knockout | Decreased | Fetal | Malumbres et al., 2004 |
| | p21Cip1 | Knockout | Decreased or unchanged | Adult | Cheng et al., 2000a; van Os et al., 2007; Foudi et al., 2009 |
| | p57Kip2 | Mx1-Cre conditional deletion | Increased | Adult | Matsumoto et al., 2011 |
| | p27Kip1/p57Kip2 | Double knockout; fetal liver HSC transplant | Increased | Fetal, Adult | Zou et al., 2011 |
| | p18ink4c | Knockout | Increased | Adult | Yuan et al 2004 |
| Transcription factors | p53 | Knockout | Increased | Adult | Liu et al., 2009 |
| | p53 | Hypermorphic allele | Decreased | Old | Dumble et al., 2007 |
| | junB | More-Cre conditional deletion | Increased | Adult | Santaguida et al., 2009 |
| PI3K pathway | Pten | Mx1-Cre conditional deletion | Increased | Adult | Yilmaz et al., 2006; Zhang et al., 2006 |
| | Tsc1 | Knockout | Increased | Adult | C. Chen et al., 2008 |
| | Akt1/2 | Double knockout | Decreased | Adult | Juntilla et al., 2010 |
| | myr-Akt | Retroviral expression | Increased | Adult | Kharas and Gritsman 2010 |
| | Foxo1/3/4 | Triple knockout | Increased | Adult | Tothova et al., 2007 |
| | Foxo3 | Knockout | Increased | Adult | Miyamoto et al., 2007 |
| Cell-extrinsic mechanisms |
| Environmental factors | Tpo | Knockout | Increased | Fetal, Adult | Qian et al., 2007 |
| | Ang-1 | Retroviral expression | Decreased | Adult | Arai et al., 2004 |
| | Kit | Hypomorphic allele | Increased | Fetal, Adult | Thorén et al., 2008 |
| | Cxcr4 | RosaCre-Ert2 conditional deletion | Increased | Adult | Nie et al., 2008 |
| Developmental pathways | Dkk | Col1α2.3-driven transgene | Increased | Adult | Fleming et al., 2008 |
| | Gli1 | Knockout | Decreased | Adult | Merchant et al., 2010 |