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Stromal cell derived factor-1 (CXCL12) chemokine gene variant in myeloid leukemias.
Clinical laboratory - 1 Jan 2014
El-Ghany Hoda Mohamed A, El-Saadany Zainab Ali, Bahaa Nevien Mohamed, Ibrahim Noha Yehia, Hussien Salwa Mahmoud
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BACKGROUND: Acute and chronic myeloid leukemia are initiated and sustained by a small, self-renewing population of leukemic stem cells, which produce progeny of a heterogeneous population of progenitor cells. CXCL12, a chemokine abundantly produced by the bone marrow microenvironment, and its receptor CXCR4 have crucial roles in malignant cell trafficking. We set out to determine the CXCL12 gene polymorphism at...
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