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Nonstochastic pairing of immunoglobulin heavy and light chains expressed by chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells is predicated on the heavy chain CDR3
4 Aug 2007
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed the immunoglobulin (Ig) variable heavy (IGHV) and variable light chain genes used by leukemia cells of 258 unrelated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) found to express unmutated Ig heavy chains (IgH) encoded by a 51p1 allele of IGHV1-69 among 1846 CLL patients examined. We found each had at least 98% homology to an identified germline IGKV or IGLV gene. Within the 258 IgH, we identified...
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