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Isotype-switched immunoglobulin genes with a high load of somatic hypermutation and lack of ongoing mutational activity are prevalent in mediastinal B-cell lymphoma.
Blood - 1 Nov 2001
Leithäuser F, Bäuerle M, Huynh M Q, Möller P
Abstract excerpt
Primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBL) is a subentity of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with characteristic clinical, histomorphologic, immunophenotypical, and genetic features. Unlike other B-cell lymphomas, PMBL has not yet been the subject of comprehensive molecular studies on the rearranged immunoglobulin (Ig) gene. Such investigations have proved essential to obtaining information about the...
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