Philadelphia chromosome

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English

The translocation

Noun

Philadelphia chromosome (plural Philadelphia chromosomes)

  1. Human chromosome 22, after it has, pathologically, traded some of its genetic material with chromosome 9; this often causes chronic myelogenous leukemia.

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