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We thank the Manitoba CLL tissue bank for the IgVH mutation analysis. LP and RA are members of the Quebec Clinical Research Organization in Cancer consortium. This study was supported by grants from the Leukemia Lymphoma society (RA and LP), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (LP, RA and BJC) and Leukemia Lymphoma Society (Canada) (BJC).
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Amrein, L., Rachid, Z., Jean-Claude, B. et al. ZRF4, a combi-molecule with increased efficacy as compared with the individual components in chronic lymphocytic leukemia lymphocytes in vitro. Leukemia 25, 1512–1516 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2011.110
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