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We thank V Leblond, Z Azgui and D Roos-Weil from the Hematology Department at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP, Paris, France) for the recruitment of the CLL patients. We thank the patients for providing the research samples used in this study. We thank C Blanc and B Hoareau from the Flow Cytometry Core CyPS (Pierre & Marie Curie University, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France) for the cell sorting; E Chapiro for cytogenetic data; and H Blons for molecular data. J Decocq, M Brissard, S Gueguen and P Bonnemye are acknowledged for their technical assistance. This study was supported in part by funds from the Laboratoire Français de Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (LFB, Les Ulis, France), the association la Ligue contre le cancer (RS08/75-4) and INSERM. V Vieillard is a researcher from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the recipient of a Contrat Hospitalier de Recherche Translationnelle (CHRT).
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CdR and RU are employed by LFB. Ublituximab was designed, manufactured and provided by LFB Biotechnologies (Les Ulis, France). LFB Biotechnologies licensed the exclusive rights to develop and commercialize ublituximab to TG Therapeutics, Inc. (New York, NY USA) since January 2012. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Le Garff-Tavernier, M., Herbi, L., de Romeuf, C. et al. Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity of the optimized anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody ublituximab on chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells with the 17p deletion. Leukemia 28, 230–233 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2013.240
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