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This work was supported by Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC) and Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena. NB is a recipient of a fellowship from Federazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro. We thank Debora Cecchini for performing FACS analysis of AML samples, Dr Geraldine Boyd for editing the manuscript and Mrs Claudia Tibidò for secretarial assistance. Brunangelo Falini applied for a patent on the clinical use of NPM mutants.
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Martelli, M., Manes, N., Pettirossi, V. et al. Absence of nucleophosmin leukaemic mutants in B and T cells from AML with NPM1 mutations: implications for the cell of origin of NPMc+ AML. Leukemia 22, 195–198 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2404857
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