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Burkitt's lymphoma is a malignancy of mature B cells expressing somatically mutated V region genes.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jul 1995
Klein U, Klein G, Ehlin-Henriksson B, Rajewsky K, Küppers R
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BACKGROUND: The developmental stage from which stems the malignant B cell population in Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is unclear. An approach to answering this question is provided by the sequence analysis of rear-ranged immunoglobulin (Ig) variable region (V) genes from BL for evidence of somatic mutations, together with a phenotypic characterization. As somatic hypermutation of Ig V region genes occurs in germinal...
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