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Distinct mechanisms lead to HPRT gene mutations in leukemic cells.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Apr 2004
Lin Ying-Wei, Perkins Jonathan J, Zhang Zhenhua, Aplan Peter D
Abstract excerpt
Leukemias are considered malignant clonal disorders arising from the accumulation of mutations in hematopoietic cells; the majority of these mutations are thought to be acquired somatically. Measurement of mutation frequency (Mf) at the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) locus has been developed as a method for estimating genomic instability. We investigated the Mf in 16 leukemic cell lines to...
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