Sjögren's syndrome: Lymphoma predisposit
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Gunnel Henriksson; Marta Brant; Zoltan Sandor; Rolf Manthorpe; Anders Bredberg
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a systemic autoimmune disorder with a strong tumor predisposition (a 44-fold elevated incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has been reported). By polymerase chain reaction analysis of t(14;18), a key lymphomagenic event in peripheral blood lymphocytes, we found a lower freq