If patients with advanced chronic myelogenous leukemia were initially treated with Gleevec, they eventually develop resistance to the drug. What seems to cause the resistance?
A) mutations in the BCR portion of the fusion gene
B) mutations in the ABL portion of the fusion gene
C) ABL gene deletion
D) ABL gene amplification
E) BCR gene amplification
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