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Spectrum of BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia from India with suspected resistance to imatinib-mutations are rare and have different distributions

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Pages 2092-2095 | Received 02 Jul 2009, Accepted 12 Sep 2009, Published online: 19 Nov 2009

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