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We express our gratitude to all the participants for contribution to this study, and we also extend our thanks to all the patients in this study. This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (81270617), Jiangsu Province’s Key Medical Center (ZX201102) as well as Jiangsu Province’s Key Medical Center (ZX201102).
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Cai, WZ., Cen, JN., Chen, J. et al. Major molecular response prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation predicts better outcome in adult Philadelphia-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first remission. Bone Marrow Transplant 52, 470–472 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2016.307
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