Autoimmune conditions and chronic infections in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients at diagnosis are associated with unmutated IgVH genes

Haematologica

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1912-1916

  Vanura, Katrina ^a,c   Le, Trang ^a   Esterbauer, Harald ^a   Späth, Florentin ^a   Porpaczy, Edit ^a   Shehata, Medhat ^a,d   Eigenberger, Karin ^a   Hauswirth, Alexander ^a   Skrabs, Cathrin ^a   Krömer, Elisabeth ^a   Schwarzinger, Ilse ^a   Streubel, Berthold ^a,c   Steininger, Christoph ^a   Fonatsch, Christa ^a   Stilgenbauer, Stephan ^b,e   Wagner, Oswald ^a   Gaiger, Alexander ^a,e   Jäger, Ulrich ^a,e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c Austrian Genome Research Project: Gen AU Child

^d K Landsteiner Institute for Cytokine and Tumor Microenvironment   (Austria)

^e German CLL Study Group

Author keywords

Chronic antigenic stimulation; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Cytogenetics; IgVH mutation status

Indexed keywords

CD38 ANTIGEN; GENOMIC DNA;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELIAC DISEASE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; COLITIS; CYTOGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HEPATITIS; HERPES; HUMAN; IGV H GENE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; LARYNGITIS; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PNEUMONIA; POLYNEUROPATHY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PSORIASIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRISOMY 12; VASCULITIS;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; INFECTION; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 57349186143     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.12955     Document Type: Article

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