Molecular Ig gene analysis reveals that monocytoid B cell lymphoma is a malignancy of mature B cells carrying somatically mutated V region genes and suggests that rearrangement of the kappa-deleting element (resulting in deletion of the Ig kappa enhancers) abolishes somatic hypermutation in the human.

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Five cases of monocytoid B cell lymphoma (MBCL) were analyzed for somatic mutations in the rearranged V region genes. Somatic mutations were found in four of the five cases, whereas one unusual CD5+ lymphoma harbored unmutated V region genes. Since somatic mutations are introduced into V region genes of antigen-activated B cells in the course of T cell-dependent immune responses, these results suggest a...

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