Serum electrophoresis were performed in 13,400 healthy adult subjects
(blood donors) and 20 cases of monoclonal gammapathy were detected: ten cases out of
10,300 blood donors from Paris and ten out of 3,100 blood donors from Saint-Nazaire.
The frequency of ‘M Component’ was of 0.1 and 0.3%, respectively. Four cases were
related to myeloma or Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia and the other 16 cases could be
ascribed to a ‘benign essential monoclonal gammapathy’ (BEMG). The distribution of
heavy and light chain classes in BEMG was 13 γ (11 K and 2 L) and 3 MK. This screening
of a normal population allowed detection of either clinically premalignant states or the
occurrence and evolution of benign essential forms of gammapathies.
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