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Mutational profiling of a MonoMAC syndrome family with GATA2 deficiency

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This research is supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore under its Singapore Translational Research (STaR) Investigator Award (NMRC/STaR/0021/2014) and administered by the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council (NMRC), the NMRC Centre Grant awarded to National University Cancer Institute of Singapore, the National Research Foundation Singapore and the Singapore Ministry of Education under its Research Centres of Excellence initiatives. This research is supported by the National Institutes of Health of the USA (R01CA026038-35), as well as by a generous donation from the Melamed family.

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Ding, LW., Ikezoe, T., Tan, KT. et al. Mutational profiling of a MonoMAC syndrome family with GATA2 deficiency. Leukemia 31, 244–245 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2016.256

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