Recently, it has been shown that in some t(8;14)
Burkitt lines, the c-myc proto-oncogene, located at chromosome
band 8q24, is physically linked to the immunoglobulin
heavy chain locus, usually on a fragment of DNA
that also encodes the mu switch region (Dalla-Favera et
al., 1982; Noel et al., 1982; Taub et al.,