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We are grateful to Professor Dr Martin Digweed from the Institute of Human Genetics, Humboldt University in Berlin for the revision of the manuscript. We thank mgr Bogumiła Erenz-Surowy from Screening Research Laboratory in Poznañ for collecting Guthrie cards. This work was supported by the Ministry of Sciences and Informatics grant no PBZ-KBN-09.0/P05/2003
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Mosor, M., Ziółkowska, I., Pernak-Schwarz, M. et al. Association of the heterozygous germline I171V mutation of the NBS1 gene with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia 20, 1454–1456 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2404285
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