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DNA Repair in Human Leukaemic Lymphocytes

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CHRONIC lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is a common human leukaemia1 in older people. Its gradual progressive clinical course is frequently associated with lymphocyte dysfunction2. In this disease lymphocyte counts are elevated and lymph nodes and organs are infiltrated with small abnormal lymphocytes which have scanty blue cytoplasm and round or clefted nuclei with clumped chromatin.

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  1. Duke University Medical Center, Veterans Administration Hospital, Durham, North Carolina

    ANDREW T. HUANG, WILLIAM B. KREMER & JOHN LASZLO

  2. Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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HUANG, A., KREMER, W., LASZLO, J. et al. DNA Repair in Human Leukaemic Lymphocytes. Nature New Biology 240, 114–116 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio240114a0

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