BCR and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: It has been previously demonstrated that the B-cell receptor (BCR) repertoire expressed by clonal B-cells involved in HCV-associated type II MC as well as in NHL is not random, with V1-69, V3-7, V4- 59 variable heavy (VH)- and still more variable κ (VK)3-20 and VK3-15 light (VL)-chain genes being the most represented [16-18].