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Abbas, S., Erpelinck-Verschueren, C., Goudswaard, C. et al. Mutant Wilms’ tumor 1 (WT1) mRNA with premature termination codons in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is sensitive to nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD). Leukemia 24, 660–663 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2009.265
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