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SUBMITTER: Takamatsu H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5664006 | biostudies-other | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of clinical medicine 20170925 10
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy with a poor prognosis, characterized by clonal proliferation of plasma cells in the bone marrow (BM). Relapse due to undetected minimal residual disease (MRD) is the leading cause of death among patients with MM. This review summarizes the methods and prognostic value of MRD assessment in BM and autografts from MM patients who underwent autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) by multiparameter flow cytometry (MFC), allele-specific oligonucl ...[more]