Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0543697
Disease: Mixed cryoglobulinemia
Mixed cryoglobulinemia
0.010 Biomarker disease BEFREE Analysis of the immunoglobulin receptor (IGR) variable heavy- and light-chain sequences on 17 hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) (9 patients also had type II mixed cryoglobulinemia [MC] syndrome and 8 had NHL unrelated to MC) and analysis of intraclonal diversity on 8 of them suggest that such malignant lymphoproliferations derive from an antigen-driven pathologic process, with a selective pressure for the maintenance of a functional IgR and a negative pressure for additional amino acid mutations in the framework regions (FRs). 11071657 2000