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This study has received financial support from the Danish Childhood Cancer Foundation, from Michael Goldschmidt Holding A/S, and from the Danish Cancer Society (Grant no. DP06136). Kjeld Schmiegelow holds the Danish Childhood Cancer Foundation professorship in Paediatric Oncology.
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Lausten-Thomsen, U., Madsen, H. & Schmiegelow, K. Characterizing chromosomal break points of t(12;21)[ETV6–RUNX1]-positive leukaemia using multiple tiling PCR on whole-genome-amplified DNA. Leukemia 24, 203–205 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2009.170
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