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A CONSISTENT structural abnormality of chromosome 14—an extra band at the terminal of the long arm—has been found in 10 out of 12 African Burkitt lymphomas1. We report here a similar long acrocentric marker chromosome derived from chromosome 14 in other types of malignant lymphoma.
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FUKUHARA, S., SHIRAKAWA, S. & UCHINO, H. Specific marker chromosome 14 in malignant lymphomas. Nature 259, 210–211 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259210a0
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