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Professor MF Greaves for useful comments and criticisms to the manuscript. IDG was supported by a Fellowship from the British Society of Haematology; NO was supported by the Arbib foundation; NPJ was supported by a Fellowship from Leukaemia Research UK.
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Del Giudice, I., Osuji, N., Dexter, T. et al. B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia have distinctive gene expression signatures. Leukemia 23, 2160–2167 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2009.137
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