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Somatic cell mutation in pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
Mutation research - 27 May 2002
Hamahata Keigo, Kubota Masaru, Usami Ikuya, Lin Ying-Wei, Shimizu Ken, Morimoto Akira, Nakahata Tatsutoshi
Abstract excerpt
In order to examine whether bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has genotoxic effects in vivo, mutant frequencies (Mfs) at the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (Hprt) locus were evaluated. Thirty-seven pediatric patients who had received allogeneic BMT for various hematologic or immunologic disorders were enrolled. Nine out of the 37 patients (24.3%) were found to have Hprt-Mfs exceeding the 99%...
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