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Lack of allelic exclusion and isotype switching in B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
American journal of hematology - 1 Dec 2001
Katayama Y, Sakai A, Katsutani S, Takimoto Y, Kimura A
Abstract excerpt
Two rearranged bands of the IgH gene were detected in a case with B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL). The expressed VH gene was only VH1 with no somatic mutations in IgM and IgD. The expressions of C mu, C delta, and C gamma were detected by reverse transcription of RNA followed by the polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sequence analysis of the CDR3 regions of each PCR reaction product showed that the...
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