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Leukemia Lymphoma Research provided principal funding for the study. Additional funding was provided by Cancer Research UK and the Arbib fund. We acknowledge National Health Service funding for the Royal Marsden Biomedical Research Center. Finally we are grateful to all individuals for their participation.
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Human Chromosome 6 Project Overview: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/HGP/Chr6
British 1958 birth cohort: http://www.b58cgene.sgul.ac.uk
NCBI dbSNP: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/
Illumina: http://www.illumina.com/
Golden Helix: http://www.goldenhelix.com/
HLA*IMP: http://oxfordhla.well.ox.ac.uk/hla/
NSCCG: http://www.icr.ac.uk/research/team_leaders/Houlston_Richard/Houlston_Richard_RES/NSCCG/index.shtml
CLL4: http://www.icr.ac.uk/research/research_divisions/Molecular_Pathology/CLL4_trial/index.shtml
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Di Bernardo, M., Broderick, P., Harris, S. et al. Risk of developing chronic lymphocytic leukemia is influenced by HLA-A class I variation. Leukemia 27, 255–258 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2012.173
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