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High incidence of ancestral HLA haplotype 8.1 and monoclonal incomplete DH–JH immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement in persistent polyclonal B-cell lymphocytosis

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  1. Department of Hematology, Medical University, ul. Pasteura 4, 50-367, Wroclaw, Poland

    Dariusz Wolowiec, Olga Haus, Ewa Duszenko & Kazimierz Kuliczkowski

  2. Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

    Jacek Nowak, Miroslaw Majewski, Renata Mika-Witkowska, Hanna Makuch-Lasica, Grazyna Nowak, Andzelika Krawcewicz & Krzysztof Warzocha

  3. Department of Hematology, Silesian Medical University, Katowice, Poland

    Beata Stella-Holowiecka

  4. Department of Clinical Genetics, Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland

    Olga Haus

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The study was supported by the research grant PBZ-KBN-120/P05/2004 from the Ministry of Education and Science.

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Wolowiec, D., Nowak, J., Majewski, M. et al. High incidence of ancestral HLA haplotype 8.1 and monoclonal incomplete DH–JH immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement in persistent polyclonal B-cell lymphocytosis. Ann Hematol 87, 597–598 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-007-0434-z

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