Burkitt's lymphomas express VH genes with a moderate number of antigen-selected somatic mutations.

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1994 • 6,495 citations

A sarcoma involving the jaws in african children

1958 • 1,307 citations

Tracing B cell development in human germinal centres by molecular analysis of single cells picked from histological sections.

1993 • 691 citations

The repertoire of human germline vH sequences reveals about fifty groups of VH segments with different hypervariable loops

1992 • 616 citations

Cell Selection by Antigen in the Immune Response

1969 • 594 citations

Immunoglobulin Determinants on the Surface of Mouse Lymphoid Cells

1970 • 422 citations

The CDR1 sequences of a major proportion of human germline Ig VH genes are inherently susceptible to amino acid replacement

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1982 • 382 citations

Evidence that multiple myeloma Ig heavy chain VDJ genes contain somatic mutations but show no intraclonal variation

1992 • 330 citations

Cyclic re-entry of germinal center B cells and the efficiency of affinity maturation

1993 • 283 citations

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1989 • 271 citations

Immunohistological Analysis of Human Lymphoma: Correlation of Histological and Immunological Categories

1984 • 269 citations

Non-Endemic Burkitt's Lymphoma

1976 • 257 citations

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1961 • 248 citations

A Glycolipid Antigen Associated with Burkitt Lymphoma Defined by a Monoclonal Antibody

1983 • 243 citations

Expression of common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (CALLA) by lymphomas of B-cell and T-cell lineage

1981 • 226 citations

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1982 • 220 citations

The maturation of the immune response

1993 • 219 citations

Acute leukemia with Burkitt's tumor cells: A study of six cases with special reference to lymphocyte surface markers

1975 • 210 citations

Maturation and Dispersal of B‐Cell Clones during T Cell‐Dependent Antibody Responses

1992 • 206 citations

Mantle cell (previously centrocytic) lymphomas express VH genes with no or very little somatic mutations like the physiologic cells of the follicle mantle

1994 • 187 citations

Evolutionary nucleotide replacements in DNA

1979 • 169 citations

Clonal expansion in follicular lymphoma occurs subsequent to antigenic selection.

1992 • 167 citations

Human IgM⁺IgD⁺ B cells, the major B cell subset in the peripheral blood, express Vϰ genes with no or little somatic mutation throughout life

1993 • 166 citations

Continuing rearrangement but absence of somatic hypermutation in immunoglobulin genes of human B cell precursor leukemia.

1988 • 160 citations

Childhood lymphosarcoma in St. Louis, Missouri, clinically and histologically resembling Burkitt's tumor

1965 • 153 citations

Somatic Mutation in Human B‐Cell Tumors

1987 • 122 citations

Hodgkin's disease with a B-cell phenotype often shows a VDJ rearrangement and somatic mutations in the VH genes

1994 • 120 citations

t(8;14) Translocation in a Burkitt's Type of Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (L3)

1979 • 102 citations

Bone marrow involvement in Burkitt's lymphoma and its relationship to acute B-cell leukemia

1980 • 88 citations

Antigen-binding mutants of mouse myeloma cells.

1977 • 82 citations

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1967 • 82 citations

Reciprocal 8;14 translocation in EBV‐negative B‐cell acute lymphocytic leukemia with burkitt‐type cells

1979 • 79 citations

B cells of chronic lymphatic leukemia express V genes in unmutated form

1991 • 61 citations

Ig V region gene expression in small lymphocytic lymphoma with little or no somatic hypermutation.

1989 • 59 citations

Multiple chromosome abnormalities in a drug resistant TdT positive B-cell leukemia

1987 • 19 citations

A Case of TdT-Positive B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

1986 • 18 citations

Vχ gene segments rearranged in chronic lymphocytic leukemia are distributed over a large portion of the Vχ locus and do not show somatic mutation

1993 • 16 citations

Patient with acute B-cell leukemia of burkitt's type (L3) and marker chromosomes including an (8;14) translocation

1982 • 15 citations

Absence of immunoglobulin variable region hypermutation in a large cell lymphoma after in vivo and in vitro propagation

1992 • 15 citations