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Cytogenetics and outcome of infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and absence of MLL rearrangements

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This work was supported in part by grants from the NCI to the Children’s Oncology Group including U10 CA98543 (COG Chair's grant), U10 CA98413 (COG Statistics & Data Center) and U24 CA114766 (COG Specimen Banking). CLW and RH were additionally supported by a Leukemia and Lymphoma Specialized Center of Research Grant in Infant Leukemia (17 372). SPH is the Ergen Family Chair in Pediatric Cancer. The study was also partially supported by Leukaemia Lymphoma Research, UK (to CJH and AVM) and Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro: Investigator Grant Code 5017 (to MGV). The Interfant99 international study operating center is partially supported by Fondazione Tettamanti and Comitato ML Verga (to MGV and PDL).

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CJH, AVM, RP and MGV designed the study. SPH as Chair of COG, ZED as Chair of the COG-P9407 trial and MD provided data from this trial. MGV and RP provided data from Interfant-99. NAH and AJC provided cytogenetic data from COG. RH and CLW provided FLT3 data. PDL, MGV and AVM carried out statistical analysis. CJH, AVM and SPH wrote the paper. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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De Lorenzo, P., Moorman, A., Pieters, R. et al. Cytogenetics and outcome of infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and absence of MLL rearrangements. Leukemia 28, 428–430 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2013.280

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