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We would like to thank the families and patients who participated in this study as well as the clinic and research staff who assist with sample collection. We thank the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT for running the SNP arrays, and the DFCI Microarray core facility for gene expression profiling. YEW and MC are supported through the CCCB and the Dana-Farber Strategic Plan Initiative. CJW acknowledges support from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Translational Research Program and is a Damon-Runyon Clinical Investigator supported in part by the Damon-Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (CI-38-07). NP is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO Vlaanderen) and a Broad Fellow of the Broad Institute. AR is supported by a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, an NIH Pioneer award, HHMI and the Merkin Foundation for Stem Cell Research at the Broad Institute. ASF is supported in part by NIH 5 PO1 CA092625. JRB is supported by K23 CA115682 from the National Institutes of Health and is a Scholar of the American Society of Hematology as well as a Scholar in Clinical Research of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. These studies were supported by the Okonow-Lipton Fund, the Melton Fund and the Rosenbach Fund.

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Brown, J., Hanna, M., Tesar, B. et al. Germline copy number variation associated with Mendelian inheritance of CLL in two families. Leukemia 26, 1710–1713 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2012.33

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