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Aberrant somatic hypermutations in thyroid lymphomas.
Leukemia research - 1 May 2009
Takakuwa Tetsuya, Miyauchi Akira, Aozasa Katsuyuki
Abstract excerpt
To determine a possible role of aberrant somatic hypermutation (ASHM) in the pathogenesis of thyroid lymphoma (TL), mutational status of genes affected by ASHM, including c-MYC, PIM-1, PAX-5 and RhoH/TTF, was analyzed. Tumor specimens from 33 patients with thyroid B-cell lymphoma and 14 with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLTH), an autoimmune thyroiditis known to provide a basis for TL development, was...
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