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Emergence of genetic instability in children treated for leukemia.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 21 Apr 2000
Finette B A, Homans A C, Albertini R J
Abstract excerpt
T cells from patients who had received chemotherapy for B-lineage acute lymphocytic leukemia were studied to determine whether genetic instability, a principal characteristic of cancer cells, can also occur in nonmalignant cells. Consistent with expectations for a genetic instability phenotype, multiple mutations were detected in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) reporter gene in...
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