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Aoki, E., Ohashi, H., Uchida, T. et al. Expression levels of DNA methyltransferase genes do not correlate with p15INK4B gene methylation in myelodysplastic syndromes. Leukemia 17, 1903–1904 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2403046
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