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Genetic heterogeneity in blast crisis of chronic myelocytic leukemia.
Leukemia research - 1 Jan 1990
Ikeda T, Kita K, Miwa H, Kawakami K, Anazawa H, Ohno T, Nosaka T, Hatanaka M, Honjo T, Shirakawa S
Abstract excerpt
Fourteen patients with lymphoid and mixed blast crisis (BC) of chronic myelocytic leukemia were studied by immunophenotyping and genotyping. Rearrangements of immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH), T-cell receptor (TcR) gamma and TcR beta genes were detected in all 14, in nine and in four patients, respectively. Interestingly, more than two rearranged bands of IgH gene in three lymphoid BC and two rearranged bands...
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