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Immunoglobulin heavy-chain consensus probes for real-time PCR quantification of residual disease in acute lymphoblastic leukemia
15 Apr 2000
Abstract excerpt
Tumor-related immunoglobulin heavy-chain (IgH) rearrangements are markers for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of minimal residual disease (MRD) in B-cell malignancies. Nested PCR with patient IgH allele-specific oligonucleotide primers can detect 1 tumor cell in 10(4) to 10(6) normal cells. In childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), persistence of PCR-detectable disease is associated with...
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