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Immunoglobulin diversification in B cell malignancies: internal splicing of heavy chain variable region as a by-product of somatic hypermutation.
Leukemia - 1 Apr 2002
Bende R J, Aarts W M, Pals S T, van Noesel C J M
Abstract excerpt
In this study we describe alternative splicing of somatically mutated immunoglobulin (Ig) variable heavy chain (V(H)) genes in three distinct primary B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (B-NHL). In two V4-34 expressing lymphomas, ie a post-germinal center type B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) and a follicular lymphoma (FL), internally spliced V(H) gene transcripts were found in which a sequence stretch of...
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