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P2X7 polymorphism and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: lack of correlation with incidence, survival and abnormalities of chromosome 12.
Leukemia - 1 Nov 2003
Zhang L Y, Ibbotson R E, Orchard J A, Gardiner A C, Seear R V, Chase A J, Oscier D G, Cross N C P
Abstract excerpt
The P2X7 receptor, a plasma membrane ATP-gated ion channel that plays a role in lymphocyte apoptosis, has been suggested as an important contributory factor to the pathogenesis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). The P2X7 gene resides on chromosome 12 and is polymorphic in the population at large (1513A/C) with the A and C alleles encoding fully active and nonfunctional proteins, respectively. We have...
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