Blastic variant of mantle cell lymphoma shows a heterogenous pattern of somatic mutations of the rearranged immunoglobulin heavy chain variable genes

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1301-1306

  Pittaluga, Stefania ^a   Tierens, Anne ^a   Pinyol, Magda ^b   Campo, Elias ^b   Delabie, Jan ^a,c   De Wolf Peeters, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Department of Pathology II ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mantle cell lymphoma; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

CD5 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, SMALL CLEAVED-CELL, DIFFUSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031671352     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00907.x     Document Type: Article

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