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We thank Dr R Van Etten of Harvard Medical School for kindly providing pMSCVneop230 BCR/ABL plasmid. This work was supported in part by grants (No. 19591142) from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan and the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan.
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Tamai, H., Miyake, K., Takatori, M. et al. Activated K-Ras protein accelerates human MLL/AF4-induced leukemo-lymphomogenicity in a transgenic mouse model. Leukemia 25, 888–891 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2011.15
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