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This study was supported by National Institute of Health Grant numbers HL69974 and DK62757 (DAW), St Baldrick's Foundation Fellowship (LM) and CancerFree Kids grant (RJS). The authors thank James Mulloy, Junping Wei and Michael Milsom for critical review of the manuscript and the Division of Experimental Hematology Translational Trials Development and Support Laboratory for providing normal donor human CD34+ cells.
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Müller, L., Schore, R., Zheng, Y. et al. Rac guanosine triphosphatases represent a potential target in AML. Leukemia 22, 1803–1806 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2008.196
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