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SUBMITTER: Boulanger E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2719041 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boulanger Emmanuelle E Marchio Agnès A Hong Saw-See SS Pineau Pascal P
Haematologica 20090716 8
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8)-associated primary effusion lymphoma is a rare non-Hodgkin's lymphoma often associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. Mutations in TP53, PTEN, PIK3CA, CTNNB1/beta-catenin genes and deletion of CDKN2A-ARF (p14(ARF)-p16(NK4a I) ) locus were investigated in sixteen primary primary effusion lymphoma tumors and seven primary effusion lymphoma cell lines using PCR and sequencing. TP53 mutations were detected in one primary primary effusion lymphoma tumor (6.2%) an ...[more]