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Two articles in this issue of the Journal, by Dave et al.¹ and Hummel et al.,² report on the use of gene-expression microarray technology to improve the accuracy of the diagnosis of Burkitt's lymphoma. The two studies differ in many important ways, but both reach the same conclusion: the gene-expression profiling of cases classified as Burkitt's lymphoma by expert pathologists identifies a characteristic genetic signature that clearly distinguishes this tumor from cases of diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma. Furthermore, the microarray method seems to outperform the expert pathologists: 17 percent¹ and 34 percent² of cases with the gene-expression signature of Burkitt's lymphoma . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School — both in Boston (N.L.H.); and the Oncology Division, Department of Medicine, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, Calif. (S.J.H.).

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