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This study was supported by grants from Fondazione Città della Speranza (Padova); Fondazione Tettamanti (Monza). LLN was partially supported by an AIRC (Italian Association of Cancer Research) grant (MFAG 2009–2011). We gratefully thank all medical doctors of the AIEOP centers who treated children and collected diagnostic samples.
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LLN designed the study, supervised the research, collected the data and wrote the manuscript; EM, MT and CC performed the molecular analyses; GB and BB performed the immunophenotyping characterization; DS and MGV collected the trials data and performed the statistical analyses; GC, GB and AB were responsible for collecting the samples and performing the diagnostic analyses and MRD; GM and VC were responsible for AIEOP ALL-2000 and ALL-R-2006 studies; EB, FC, ML, CMe, CMi., AP, RP and NS provided the data and samples; CR, FL, MA, MGV and VC collaborated in writing the manuscript.
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Lo Nigro, L., Mirabile, E., Tumino, M. et al. Detection of PICALM-MLLT10 (CALM-AF10) and outcome in children with T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia 27, 2419–2421 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2013.149
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