BCL-6 mutations are associated with immunoglobulin variable heavy chain mutations in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 5644-5648

  Pasqualucci, Laura ^a   Neri, Antonino ^b   Baldini, Luca ^b   Dalla Favera, Riccardo ^a   Migliazza, Anna ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; PROTEIN BCL 6;

ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LEUKEMIA, B-CELL, CHRONIC; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0034667427     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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