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Current views on the genetic landscape and management of variant acute promyelocytic leukemia
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We thank Kees Geurts, Daniel Olde Weghuis and Henny de France for initial cytogenetic analysis; Tiny Tammer, Eric Borst, Nicole de Waal and Wil van Dijk for excellent technical assistance. We acknowledge the patient material provided by Dr Elisabeth van Wering, Dutch Childhood Oncology Group, The Hague, The Netherlands. We thank Dr Miranda Buitenhuis and Professor Paul Coffer for communicating unpublished results.
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Buijs, A., Bruin, M. Fusion of FIP1L1 and RARA as a result of a novel t(4;17)(q12;q21) in a case of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Leukemia 21, 1104–1108 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2404596
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