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Selective influences in the expressed immunoglobulin heavy and light chain gene repertoire in hairy cell leukemia.
Haematologica - 1 May 2008
Forconi Francesco, Sozzi Elisa, Rossi Davide, Sahota Surinder S, Amato Teresa, Raspadori Donatella, Trentin Livio, Leoncini Lorenzo, Gaidano Gianluca, Lauria Francesco
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We previously reported ongoing mutational and isotype switch events in the immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain (H) locus in hairy cell leukemia. Those analyses raised questions on the incidence and type of selective influences occurring on the tumor B-cell receptor of hairy cell leukemia. DESIGN AND METHODS: To further investigate this issue, we examined the full IGH and kappa and lambda light chains...
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