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The chromosomes from 2 cases of lymphoma involving proliferation of abnormal T-lymphocytes are described. The tumours differed histologically and chromosomally, although certain of the structural chromosome changes found are of common occurrence in other, mostly B-cell, lymphomata.
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Reeves, B.R., Stathopoulos, G. Cytogenetic and cell-surface marker studies in two non-Hodgkin's lymphomata of T-cell origin. Hum Genet 31, 203–210 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00296147
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