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This work was partially supported by grants from the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca contro il Cancro (AIRC), Ministero Istruzione, Università, Ricerca Tecnologica (MIUR): Cofin 40% and ‘Oncologia Bridge’, Fondazione M. Tettamanti, Fondazione ‘Città della Speranza’. We thank Dr Andrea Callegaro for the help in statistical analyses.
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Sala, A., Lanciotti, M., Valsecchi, M. et al. Genotypes of the glutathione S-transferase superfamily do not correlate with outcome of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia 17, 981–983 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2402888
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