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SUBMITTER: Hemminki K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4916420 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hemminki Kari K Försti Asta A Tuuminen Raimo R Hemminki Otto O Goldschmidt Hartmut H Sundquist Kristina K Sundquist Jan J Li Xinjun X
Scientific reports 20160622
Plasma cell dyscrasias, including monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), multiple myeloma (MM), Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) and light chain AL amyloidosis, are characterized by clonal expansion of plasma cells which produce a vast amount of an immunoglobulin-derived M-protein. We noted that MGUS diagnosis often coincided with diagnoses of senile cataract and glaucoma and tested the associations of MGUS, MM, WM and AL amyloidosis with subsequent eye diseases identified ...[more]