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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Aldo Roccaro
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-50683 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Blood 20140407 26
The C-X-C chemokine receptor type 4 (CXCR4) plays a crucial role in modulating cell trafficking in hematopoietic stem cells and clonal B cells. We screened 418 patients with B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders and described the presence of the C1013G/CXCR4 warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections, and myelokathexis-associated mutation in 28.2% (37/131) of patients with lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (Waldenström macroglobulinemia [WM]), being either absent or present in only 7% of other B-cell lymp ...[more]