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Genome-wide association study identifies an acute myeloid leukemia susceptibility locus near BICRA

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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge: the patients who consented to provide material for this study; Jan Lockman and Barbara Fersch for administrative help; Donna Bucci and Wacharaphon Vongchucherd of The Alliance NCTN Biorepository and Biospecimen Resource for sample processing and storage services; the Ohio Supercomputer Center for computational resources; and Lisa J. Sterling of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center for data management. This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute grants CA180821 and CA180882 (to the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology), CA196171, CA077658, CA180850, CA180861, CA140158, CA016058, a Pelotonia idea grant, and the Leukemia Clinical Research Foundation.

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CJW, CCO, LKG, SL, DN, A-KE, MS, PB, MB, SS, AdlC, and CDB designed the study; MS, PB, MB, AJC, JEK, BLP, ESW, DWN, RMS, JCB, SS, AdlC, and CDB recruited subjects and handled biological samples; CJW, CCO, LKG, and BG performed genotyping; CJW, SL, DN, A-KE, JK, KM, SS, AdlC, and CDB wrote and revised the manuscript.

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Walker, C.J., Oakes, C.C., Genutis, L.K. et al. Genome-wide association study identifies an acute myeloid leukemia susceptibility locus near BICRA. Leukemia 33, 771–775 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-018-0281-z

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