Immunoglobulin light chain gene rearrangements display hierarchy in absence of selection for functionality in precursor-b-all

Leukemia

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1448-1453

  Van der Burg, M ^a   Barendregt, B H ^a   Szczepanski T ^a,b   Van Wering, E R ^c   Langerak, A W ^a   Van Dongen, J J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c Dutch Childhood Leukemia Study Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin; Light chain genes; Precursor b all; V(d)j recombination

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036054186     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2402548     Document Type: Article

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