Identification of common germinal-center B-cell precursors in two patients with both Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 1239-1247

  Bräuninger, Andreas ^a   Hansmann, Martin Leo ^a   Strickler, John G ^b   Dummer, Reinhard ^c   Burg, Günther ^c   Rajewsky, Klaus ^d   Küppers, Ralf ^d,e  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSFORMATION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMINAL CENTER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REED STERNBERG CELL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REED-STERNBERG CELLS;

EID: 0345391016     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199904223401604     Document Type: Article

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