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Immunophenotypic analysis and quantification of B-1 and B-2 B cells during human fetal hematopoietic development

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This work was supported by the European Research Council to PM (ERC-2014-CoG-646903), the ISCIII/FEDER (PI14/01191) and Spanish Association against Cancer (CI2015) to CB, MINECO (SAF2013-43065) to PM, Fundación Inocente Inocente to PM and The Generalitat de Catalunya (SGR330) to PM. CB is supported by a Miguel Servet II contract (CPII13/00011). AM-L is supported by FPI (BES-2014-067844) scholarship. AS-P is supported by a Marie Curie fellowship (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG-631171). PM also acknowledges the financial support from Celgene SL (Madrid, Spain) and The Obra Social La Caixa-Fundaciò Josep Carreras. CB and PM are investigators of the Spanish Cell Therapy cooperative network (TERCEL).

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CB and PM conceived the study, designed and performed the experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript. EvR, AM-L, AS-P, PG-C, MJ, AN and RWS performed the experiments and provided key biological samples and reagents.

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Bueno, C., van Roon, E., Muñoz-López, A. et al. Immunophenotypic analysis and quantification of B-1 and B-2 B cells during human fetal hematopoietic development. Leukemia 30, 1603–1606 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2015.362

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