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Phil·a·del·phia chromosome

n :  an abnormally short chromosome 22 that is found in the hematopoietic cells of persons affected with chronic myelogenous leukemia and lacks the major part of its long arm which has usu. undergone translocation to chromosome 9 .
 
 

 
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