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SUBMITTER: Rogozin IB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5141443 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rogozin Igor B IB Lada Artem G AG Goncearenco Alexander A Green Michael R MR De Subhajyoti S Nudelman German G Panchenko Anna R AR Koonin Eugene V EV Pavlov Youri I YI
Scientific reports 20161207
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an uncurable cancer characterized by progressive severity of relapses. We analyzed sequence context specificity of mutations in the B cells from a large cohort of FL patients. We revealed substantial excess of mutations within a novel hybrid nucleotide motif: the signature of somatic hypermutation (SHM) enzyme, Activation Induced Deaminase (AID), which overlaps the CpG methylation site. This finding implies that in FL the SHM machinery acts at genomic sites containing ...[more]