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This research was supported by the EU horizon 2020 grant project MAMLE ID: 714731, LLS Grant ID: RTF6005-19, IMOS-712843, ISF IPMP grant ID 3165/19 and ISF-NSF grant ID 2427/18 awarded to LIS. LIS is an incumbent of the Ruth and Louis Leland career development chair. N.K. is an incumbent of the Applebaum Foundation Research Fellow Chair. This research was also supported by the Sagol Institute for Longevity Research, the Barry and Eleanore Reznik Family Cancer Research Fund, Steven B. Rubenstein Research Fund for Leukemia and Other Blood Disorders, the Rising Tide Foundation and the Applebaum Foundation. This work was supported by the Ernest and Bonnie Beutler Research Program of Excellence in Genomic Medicine supporting LIS.
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De-Morgan, A., Meggendorfer, M., Haferlach, C. et al. Male predominance in AML is associated with specific preleukemic mutations. Leukemia 35, 867–870 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-020-0935-5
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