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Unusual deletions within the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus in acute leukemias.
Blood - 1 Aug 1993
Dyer M J, Heward J M, Zani V J, Buccheri V, Catovsky D
Abstract excerpt
We have investigated the structure of the Ig heavy (IGH) chain locus in 309 cases of acute leukemia. Seventy-one cases of B-cell precursor (BCP) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were analyzed: in six cases deletion of joining (JH) segments in the presence of cytogenetically normal chromosome 14 was observed. Similar deletions were seen in 1 out of 8 cases of biphenotypic acute leukemia analyzed: this case...
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