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  • 1Tumour Immunogenetics Group, Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|June 8, 2017
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Keywords:
B-cell malignancyB-cell repertoireGerminal centerIGHV geneMassive parallel next-generation sequencingMultiple myelomaTumor origins

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