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B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can be segregated into 2 subtypes based upon the nature of the expressed immunoglobulin (Ig) genes. Leukemia cells that use unmutated Ig more often express CD38 and are associated with a higher tendency toward disease progression than are CLL cells that
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