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Clinical Validation of a CXCR4 Mutation Screening Assay for Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia.
Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia - 1 Jul 2016
Ballester Leomar Y, Loghavi Sanam, Kanagal-Shamanna Rashmi, Barkoh Bedia A, Lin Pei, Medeiros L Jeffrey, Luthra Rajyalakshmi, Patel Keyur P
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OBJECTIVES: Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (WM) is a B-cell lymphoma characterized by the accumulation of lymphocytes and plasmacytic cells in the bone marrow and by excess production of immunoglobulin M in serum. WM has been closely linked with the MYD88(L265P) mutation. Whole genome sequencing has identified somatic mutations in the CXCR4 gene in ∼29% of WM cases with MYD88(L265P). CXCR4 mutations may interfere...
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