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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia B Cells Can Undergo Somatic Hypermutation and Intraclonal Immunoglobulin VHDJH Gene Diversification
2 Sept 2002
Abstract excerpt
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) arises from the clonal expansion of a CD5(+) B lymphocyte that is thought not to undergo intraclonal diversification. Using V(H)DJ(H) cDNA single strand conformation polymorphism analyses, we detected intraclonal mobility variants in 11 of 18 CLL cases. cDNA sequence analyses indicated that these variants represented unique point-mutations (1-35/patient). In nine cases, these...
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