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Identification of somatic hypermutations in the TP53 gene in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Molecular immunology - 1 Mar 2008
Malcikova J, Smardova J, Pekova S, Cejkova S, Kotaskova J, Tichy B, Francova H, Doubek M, Brychtova Y, Janek D, Pospisilova S, Mayer J, Dvorakova D, Trbusek M
Abstract excerpt
Abnormalities of the TP53 gene are associated with a particularly severe prognosis in patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL). This tumor-suppressor is mostly inactivated by the deletion of one and point mutation of the other allele and has not been previously shown to be hypermutated in B-CLL. We identified two patients whose lymphocytes showed repeatedly an extensive proportion of TP53 mutated...
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