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Prevalence and Clinicopathologic Significance of BRAF V600E Mutation in Chinese Multiple Myeloma Patients.
Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia - 1 Jul 2018
Cheung Coty H Y, Cheng Chi Keung, Lau Kin-Mang, Ip Rosalina K L, Chan Nelson C N, Tam Tommy H C, Wong Raymond S M, Raghupathy Radha, Chan Natalie P H, Ng Margaret H L
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BACKGROUND: Previous studies in Western countries demonstrated BRAF V600E mutation only in a small subset of multiple myeloma (MM) patients. However, the prevalence and clinicopathologic significances of this mutation remain unclear in Chinese MM patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied diagnostic bone marrow samples from 205 Chinese MM patients by allele-specific PCR to detect BRAF V600E mutation and by...
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