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We regret that all colleagues could not be appropriately cited due to the reference limitation. We are thankful to Jörg Meerpohl and Jaroslav Sterba for contributing patient materials and clinical information. Ester Mejstrikova is acknowledged for immunophenotyping, Dana Dvorakova for sample preparation, and Ulla Jacobs and Ines Volkmer for technical assistance. This work was supported by Grants 2002.032.1 from the Wilhelm Sander-Foundation to MM and TL, Grant MSMT21620813 to JZ and JT, Grant N1KR-S12T13 from the BMBF to RM, and Grant 102362 from the Deutsche Krebshilfe to RM.
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Metzler, M., Staege, M., Harder, L. et al. Inv(11)(q21q23) fuses MLL to the Notch co-activator mastermind-like 2 in secondary T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia 22, 1807–1811 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2008.50
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