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B‐Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, a Clonal Disease of B Lymphocytes with Receptors that Vary in Specificity for (Auto)antigens
1 Dec 2005
Abstract excerpt
B-Cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) is an incurable disease that is relatively common among aging Caucasians. Patients with this leukemia can be divided into prognostic categories using clinical staging parameters, as well as molecular features [presence or absence of IgVH mutations in rearranged VHDJH segments that code for the leukemic B cell's receptor for antigen (BCR)]. In addition, the deduced amino...
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