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We acknowledge the University of Illinois Hematology Cell Bank for the use of viable leukemia patient samples (IRB# 2014-0048; HEMBANK-01). We thank Dr Mark Minden (Ontario Cancer Institute) for the OCI-AML3 leukemia cell line, Dr Pradip Raychaudhuri (UIC) for the α-tubulin antibody and Dr Viswanathan Natarajan (UIC) for the Lamin B1 antibody. We also thank Dr Amit Khanal (UIC), Dr Yoon Sang Kim (UIC) and Dr Binal Shah (UIC) for technical assistance. The project described was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grant UL1TR000050. This work was supported by NIH grants 5R01CA138409 and 5R21CA194608, and also Bridge Funding Grant from UIC, all to ALG. NIH grant 5 T32 DK007788-14 to MH. This work was also supported by a UIC Cancer Center Pilot Grant awarded jointly to IK and ALG.
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Khan, I., Halasi, M., Zia, M. et al. Nuclear FOXM1 drives chemoresistance in AML. Leukemia 31, 251–255 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2016.270
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