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Letters to the Editor

A translocation t(2;14)(p11.2;q32) involving rearrangements of immunoglobulin heavy chain and kappa light chain genes in B-cell lymphoma

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Pages 2992-2994 | Received 07 Oct 2014, Accepted 08 Feb 2015, Published online: 12 May 2015

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