Molecular biology of lymphomas

DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology: Tenth Edition

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  Pasqualucci, Laura ^a   Dalla Favera, Riccardo ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

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