Mutations of NFKBIA, encoding IkappaB alpha, are a recurrent finding in classical Hodgkin lymphoma but are not a unifying feature of non-EBV-associated cases.
A consistent feature of the Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells in classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is the constitutive activation of NF-kappaB transcription factors. In Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated cases of cHL, expression of viral antigens most probably leads to NF-kappaB activation but...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2009
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