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EED mutants impair polycomb repressive complex 2 in myelodysplastic syndrome and related neoplasms

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We thank Yu Iwai and Megumi Nakamura for technical assistance, and Dragon Genomics Center, Takara Bio Inc. for sequencing of the PCR products. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan.

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Ueda, T., Sanada, M., Matsui, H. et al. EED mutants impair polycomb repressive complex 2 in myelodysplastic syndrome and related neoplasms. Leukemia 26, 2557–2560 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2012.146

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