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A loss-of-function polymorphic mutation in the cytolytic P2X7 receptor gene and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a molecular study.
Lancet (London, England) - 30 Mar 2002
Wiley James S, Dao-Ung L Phuong, Gu Ben J, Sluyter Ronald, Shemon Anne N, Li Changping, Taper John, Gallo John, Manoharan Arumugam
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) has a familial incidence nearly three times higher than expected for the general population and one predisposing factor might be an inherited failure of mechanisms involved in apoptosis of lymphocytes. Our aim was to ascertain whether or not a defect in a proapoptotic pathway, caused by a single nucleotide polymorphism that results in loss-of-function of P2X7 in...
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