The Presence of Typical and Atypical BCR-ABL Fusion Genes in Leukocytes of Normal Individuals: Biologic Significance and Implications for the Assessment of Minimal Residual Disease

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The number of genetic lesions necessary to generate leukemia in humans is unknown, but it is possible that certain specific abnormalities, eg, fusion genes, known to be associated with acute and chronic leukemia are produced relatively frequently in human cells but require other events to occur before the leukemia becomes manifest. We investigated this possibility by studying peripheral blood leukocytes from...

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