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Langabeer, S., Gale, R., Walker, H. et al. Reported cryptic rearrangements of CBFβ-MYH11 in acute myeloid leukaemia are not due to false priming of contaminating DNA. Leukemia 14, 944–945 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2401751
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